By: Phoebe Arslanagić-Little

Phoebe Arslanagic-Little writes a monthly column at City AM. She works on the birth rate challenge, thinking about how we can make it easier for everyone to become a parent. She is also head of social policy at the think tank Onward and a fellow at the Centre for British Progress

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Have rumours of the death of literacy been exaggerated?

Opinion

We’re told no one reads for pleasure any more, but the popularity of Middlemarch in Silicon Valley and the rise of “booktok” give a glimpse of hope, says Phoebe Arslanagić-Little A new study has found that the percentage of Americans who report reading for pleasure over the course of an average day has declined from [...]
Ultra processed foods: A new front in the baby weaning battle

Opinion

Parents are already bewildered by conflicting advice on what to feed babies – now researchers are warning against veggie puffs, despairs Phoebe Arslanagić-Little Last week, researchers from the University of Leeds warned parents that they are “setting their children up for a lifetime of obesity” by feeding babies ultra processed food, or UPFs. The researchers [...]
The British state has become a Ponzi scheme paid for by the young

Opinion

Flatlining wages, soaring house prices and high childcare costs have broken the social contract: the unspoken understanding that if you worked hard and did the right thing, Britain would reward you, say Simon Clarke and Phoebe Arslanagic-Little Last week, the OBR set out the sheer, mind-blowing extent of Britain’s fiscal risks. Foremost among them is [...]

Is getting off Tinder the answer to Britain’s relationship recession?

July 9, 2025

Dating apps like Hinge, Tinder and Bumble are in decline but let’s not pretend Britain was more romantic before the apps, says Phoebe Arslanagić-Little All over the world, from Turkey and Finland to America and Thailand, people are becoming less likely to enter into relationships. In the UK, households consisting of just one person are [...]
Grandparents are the missing piece in the fertility crisis

June 5, 2025

An under-discussed aspect of the housing shortage is that it forces many young Londoners to move away from their parents, making it harder to raise children of their own, says Phoebe Arslanagic-Little My husband and I knew that our baby would be much loved by our parents, but we have both been surprised by the [...]
Why shrimp deserve compassion too

May 6, 2025

They may be ugly and unappealing, but shrimp – farmed in vast quantities in squalid conditions – deserve ethical consideration, says Phoebe Arslanagic-Little I can buy a box of supermarket eggs for 15p an egg. Instead, I have a crate of eggs couriered to me, once a month, from a farm in Lancashire called Oakstream [...]
Be an urban hero – report a Lime bike

April 1, 2025

Discarded Lime bikes are littering London’s public realm and menacing wheelchair users, pram-pushers and the blind. There is a simple solution, says Phoebe Arslanagic-Little Can there be any Londoner yet to be inconvenienced by an abandoned Lime bike? We want to get to work. We need to go to the shops. But improperly parked Lime [...]
Self-rocking prams and turbo buggies, baby tech is innovation gone right

March 5, 2025

From self-rocking prams to motorised buggies, baby tech showcases the best of innovation, writes former sceptic Phoebe Arslanagić-Little.
Would you volunteer to get yourself infected with flu in Canary Wharf?

December 3, 2024

For £3,000 you can opt to spend a week helping to create the next generations of vaccines at the world’s largest human challenge trial and quarantine facility – a minute’s walk from Canary Wharf, says Phoebe Arslanagić-Little In October I wrote in City AM about human challenge trials – a medical research study that sees [...]
Driving Gen Z into the ground

November 5, 2024

A shortage of driving tests and suggestions that young people should not be allowed to give their friends lifts are just the latest examples of the infantilisation of Gen Z, says Phoebe Arslanagić-Little In July 2024, there was not a single driving test to be had anywhere in London, at all. The best the DVSA [...]

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