MATTHEW SYED: Why we must stop mollycoddling our childrenĀ 

There was something bothering my seven-year-old daughter, Evie. ‘Why do they think my life has been ruined, Daddy?’ I had got into the habit of putting on the radio in the morning as I made breakfast, and she had cottoned on to an interview with an archetypal gloomster. ‘Our children’s lives have been devastated,’ he … Read more