39 h. ago Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards? | Alexander Hurst

Corruption and greed have eroded morality in public life. Powerful people who do what is right are in short supply“Courage is seeking the truth and speaking it,” Jean Jaurès, the French philosopher and Socialist party leader, told a group of high school students in 1903. “It is not yielding to the law of the triumphant lie as it passes, and not echoing, with our soul, our mouth and our hands, mindless applause and fanatical jeering.”When the first world war reared its ugly, pointless head, Jaurès refused to give in to mindless fanaticism and attempted to coordinate a Franco-German general strike to stop the rush to war. In 1914, he paid for those efforts with his life when a 29-year-old French nationalist shot him twice in the back.Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Girl, 15, leaves school after being told she can't go to the toilet during class

Holly Hicks says girls are being left humiliated and embarrassed when on their period because they are prevented from going to the toilet during lesson at Radyr Comprehensive

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4 d. ago ‘He gave us a sense of pride’: Rev Al Sharpton on Malcolm X’s 100th birthday

Veteran activist reflects on Malcolm’s legacy and decades of progress now rolled back by Trump and ‘white supremacy on steroids’When African Americans protested police brutality in New York, they were portrayed as rioters, Malcolm X told an audience at the London School of Economics. When shop windows were smashed in the Black community, he said, the press gave the impression that “hoodlums, vagrants, criminals” wanted to break in and steal merchandise.“But this is wrong,” Malcolm contended. “In America the Black community in which we live is not owned by us. The landlord is white. The merchant is white. In fact, the entire economy of the Black community in the states is controlled by someone who doesn’t even live there And these are the people who suck the economic blood of our community.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Woman who was bullied out of school and told she'd never succeed reveals how she became millionaire by 18

Liv Conlon, 26, originally from Scotland,  was picked on 'relentlessly' over her aspirations. She eventually left school and launched two booming businesses that turned her into a millionaire.

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Kobi Macharia Dooly: Boy killed hours after school, court told  BBC

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2 w. ago Teen best friends died 'holding each other's hands' in 75mph horror crash on the way to prom after driver ignored pleas to slow down

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2 w. ago Greater Manchester school issues major new ban as pupils told to surrender their mobile phones at the start of the day

The school said it aims to 'create an environment free from distractions', with kids to be forced to go without their devices for six hours until the end of the day

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Siobhan Clarke ‘seemed very muddled’ after driving her damaged car onto the school’s site, regulators were told.

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2 w. ago School in lockdown over ‘threatening email’ with pupils urged to stay home

Parents have been told to keep their children away from Astor Secondary School in Dover

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The 15-year-old says he is staying positive by spending time with family and ‘telling lots of jokes’

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A boy accused of killing a classmate and injuriing others in a knife attack at a school in Nantes, France, allegedly make chilling remarks to police officers as he was arrested

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4 w. ago Schoolgirl's harrowing final moments before being 'submerged' in mudslide

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A student armed with a knife launched the attack at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Doulon area of Nantes on Thursday afternoon.

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4 w. ago Teenager sent home from school with a headache told he has ‘inoperable’ brain tumour

The 15-year-old says he is staying positive by spending time with family and “telling lots of jokes”

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