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Woman's Hour

Gentle parenting, Truss and leadership, Indicator offences

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What is a gentle parent? Does it really mean never saying ‘no’ to your child? And how did #gentleparenting attract more than 2.6 billion views on TikTok? Emma Barnett talks to TikTok content creator Kelly Medina Enos and psychologist Dr Penelope Leach about the rising popularity of this parenting approach. Only yesterday the Prime Minister Liz Truss said her government would be sticking to the measures announced in the mini budget ten days ago. But this morning the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, has reversed the tax cut proposal that has led to volatility in the value of sterling and pressure on interest rates and inflation. Is it strong leadership to admit mistakes and move on or will it blight the premiership of Liz Truss? Emma is joined by the Times journalist Rachel Sylvester, and then business leader Nicola Horlick to discuss new research showing that just a third of girls want to be the boss in their future careers. We learned last week that the charity Mermaids is to be investigated by the Charity Commission. This is after an undercover investigation by the Telegraph newspaper claiming that Mermaids is supplying breast binders to children without parental consent. These are devices that are used to bind up the breasts in order to give the appearance of a flatter chest. Emma speaks to Lauren Moss, the BBC’s LGBT and Identity correspondent who has been following the story. Wayne Couzens is serving a whole life sentence for the rape and murder of Sarah Everard in 2021. He has appeared this morning at The Old Bailey at a plea hearing for two flashing offences he allegedly committed prior to this. Couzens was not actually asked to enter a plea however, amid ongoing industrial action by barristers, so we don't know yet know whether these charges will lead to a trial. We explore the subject of so-called ‘indicator’ offences, those low-level offences which could lead to more serious crimes. Emma is joined by Zoe Billingham, Former Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary who was responsible for inspecting 15 police forces & Kieran McCartan - Professor of Criminology at the University of the West of England. We speak to Sam and Alena Cox, a married couple of artists whose Kent home is attracting a lot of attention. Sam is an artist known for his doodles and he has gone everywhere in his home with his paintbrush and spray can. It's black and white all over - from the external walls to the toilet lid and even Alena’s tutu.

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:11.0

Good morning and welcome to the programme. I hope the weekend was good to you.

0:14.8

A long time ago, especially in political hours all the way back to last Thursday's programme,

0:19.8

I asked you if you had five minutes with Liz Truss as my colleagues did on local BBC

0:24.3

radio, what you would ask her. Many of you were lighted upon the theme of inquiring

0:29.5

why she couldn't change her mind, or believe she was wrong after her Chancellor's mini-budget

0:34.6

continued to cause turbulence across the economy and markets. Others of you, of course,

0:40.1

said she should stick to her guns, but the new Prime Minister did that. She was digging

0:44.1

her heels in those pre-conservative party conference interviews all the way until her interview

0:50.7

yesterday with my colleague Laura Koonsberg. Those heels were firmly dug in. No changes

0:55.1

would be made and the tax cut for higher earners would remain. That was until this morning,

1:01.0

when the Chancellor quasi-quarting was the one to perform the U-turn, made all the more

1:05.1

major four mistresses in transigence, saying the government is abandoning its plan to

1:09.6

abolish the top rate of income tax for the highest earners as it had become a distraction.

1:15.2

Of course this will have been signed off or even ordered by the Prime Minister, changing

1:19.4

your mind or performing a U-turn, is it a good sign of leadership or weakness? Have

1:25.6

a listen to the very end of what the Chancellor had to say to my colleagues on the today

1:28.9

programme earlier. So we've listened to, well it's not just about MPs, it's not about

1:34.0

parliamentary votes or Westminster machinations. It's about listening to people in the country

1:39.5

and actually understanding where people are. Well you can widen the apology if you like,

1:43.0

you can apologise to everybody. And actually having the humour. Do you own apology?

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