7 d. ago A chance at £10k a month for 30 years? This £6.38 lotto syndicate could be the savvy way to play

This Wowcher lottery deal offers 500 entries into the Set For Life game at a reduced cost, giving players the chance to join a syndicate for a regular prize draw.

Economics

8 d. ago My cultural awakening: Buffy gave me the courage to escape my conservative Pakistani upbringing

The vampire slayer’s tenacity and independence freed me from the judgment and violence of my conservative relatives – and now my mum appreciates me for who I amI was 10, cross-legged on the floor of my parents’ living room in Newcastle, bathed in the blue light of a TV. The volume was set to near-silence – my dad, asleep in another room, had schizophrenia and frontal lobe syndrome, and I didn’t want to wake him. Then, like some divine interruption to the endless blur of news and repeats, I stumbled across Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The show may have been barely audible, but it hit me like a lightning bolt.Before Buffy, life was like a pressure cooker. I secretly yearned for a more alternative lifestyle, but even wearing jeans would have been a big deal in my family. I had an assisted place at a private school as my parents were quite poor. Mum would say: “If you don’t study, we’ll have to put you in the other school, and you’ll just get beaten up.” It sounds like fear-monge...

Politics

1 week ago School leaders’ unions consider encouraging members to quit as Ofsted inspectors

The Association of School and College Leaders and the National Association of Head Teachers may take the ‘unprecedented step’ over inspection reforms.

Politics

2 w. ago Disabled teen turns Fortnite hobby into job as he rakes in £10k a month and quits school

Ross McLaren, 22, from Midlothian, Scotland, was born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy which left him wheelchair-bound - but he built a six-figure business while still in his teens

Economics

2 w. ago Disabled Scot quit school after making £10k a month managing Fortnite players from bedroom

Ross McLaren quit school and cancelled his Advanced Highers are finding his calling building a lucrative business in the gaming world.

Economics

3 w. ago Zia Yusuf quits Reform: how he went from public school to Farage's right hand man

Nigel Farage believed the once-left wing student and former Goldman Sachs finance bro was a ‘huge factor’ in the growing success of his right-wing populist party. Katie Strick charts his steep rise and sudden departure from the heart of politics

Politics