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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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  • Grandparents are the missing piece in the fertility crisis

    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

    Opinion

    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

    Opinion

    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 [...]

  • Bored of mini golf and axe-throwing? Try the plague

    October 1, 2024

    Bored of mini golf? Try the plague, writes Phoebe Arslanagić-Little, as she discovers the world of 'human challenge trials'.

  • Why one in every 50 babies born in Taiwan has a parent who works for this company

    September 3, 2024

    The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company isn’t just the world’s biggest producer of chips, its family-friendly working practices are yielding another important output: babies, writes Phoebe Arslanagić-Little The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is a globally crucial business, the world’s leading manufacturer of semiconductors and producer of nearly 90 per cent of the most advanced chips. [...]

  • Let’s be honest, pornography is not sex positive – and it’s not prudish to say so

    August 6, 2024

    It is commonly believed that watching pornography is part of a healthy sex life. But what if our awkwardness means we're not asking the necessary questions?

  • The wedding industry is anti-marriage

    July 4, 2024

    The stress and exorbitant expense of weddings makes couple feel they are prize specimens at Crufts, rather than two human beings making solemn vows, says Phoebe Arslanagić-Little July has begun and we are in the thick of wedding season. For couples, the sting of discovering how much a photographer costs and decisions about napkin colours [...]

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