Minute by Minute

I really think it's time I stopped reading/watching/listening to the news again for a while. Years ago I lived without a telly for a year and found reading the newspapers, which I did rarely, a really distressing experience, which meant, I figured, that I had become innured to the daily ration of horrific and distressing events dished up by the media. The latest pronouncement by the head of Barnardo's, Martin Narey, has thoroughly depressed me. And what depresses me even more is that so many people seem to agree with taking babies from their mother AT BIRTH! Have we learnt nothing as a society about how much it matters to a child be with their families in any but the most exceptional circumstances?