Melissa Benn

Melissa Ann Benn is a British journalist and writer. She is the author of ‘School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education’

Book of a lifetime: Middlemarch, By George Eliot

Teenagers make a request to vote at a polling station in Stanwell Village, west of London 05 May 2005.

To vote or not to vote? At 16, children like my daughter are old

Living Dolls, By Natasha Walter<br />The Equality Illusion, By Kat

From A To X, by John Berger

Travelling light in Imelda-land

Books: Voices from unvisited rooms

Your gran never had it so good

Real men work part-time, too

Real men work part-time, too