3 h. ago Inside North Korea's brutal schools where children face daily beatings and are forced to learn about Kim Jong Un's life and sing propaganda songs

Bella Seo - who fled the dystopian country when she was a teenager - said students' most important subject was their leader Kim Jong Un , which they had to study three times a day.

Culture

6 h. ago Numbers of children learning to swim in part of Wales are starting to become worrying

The new figures on membership to a leisure company's swimming lessons come one year after a study showed that only 16% of children in Cardiff could swim

Politics

4 d. ago Debunking the socialisation myth: how online schools can help children form friendships as they learn

From school trips and meet-ups to summer camps and exchanges, discover how online schooling can help your child form lasting friendships

Politics

7 d. ago A horse therapy program in Namibia brings joy to children with learning disabilities

A woman in the southern African country of Namibia runs a program that harnesses the power but also the gentleness of horses to help children with learning disabilities and conditions like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism

Politics

8 d. ago The shocking amount of sugar packed into a Cadbury Creme egg REVEALED

Chocolatey treats are permitted today but parents watching children scoff a Cadbury Creme Egg might be surprised to learn just how much sugar the seasonal candy packs in.

Events

2 w. ago TikTokers rave about 'secret swim spot' with crystal clear waters hidden next to a Welsh A road

Travel Influencers have been raving about the crystal clear waters and old stone bridge of a river that sits just metres from a busy A road in Eryri

Politics

2 w. ago One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream

A collection of staggering TV clips and amazing audio of Lennon and Ono’s life in 1970s NYC, this film is a mosaic of countercultural momentsFilm-maker Kevin Macdonald has created a fever dream of pop culture: a TV-clip collage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s time in New York in the early 70s, as they led the countercultural protest. It’s a film that mixes small screen zeitgeist fragments and madeleine moments, a memory quilt of a certain time and place, juxtaposing Jerry Rubin and Allen Ginsberg with Richard Nixon and George Wallace, John and Yoko in concert with ads for Tupperware – all inspired by the fact that John and Yoko did an awful lot of TV watching in their small New York apartment of that time, with John in particular thrilled by the American novelty of 24/7 television.It was also on TV that John and Yoko saw a documentary about the scandalous abuse of learning-disabled children at the infamous Willowbrook State School in New York and they organised the One to One concert ...

Politics

3 w. ago No worries if not? Why Brits need to start saying what they actually mean

New research shows that British people are having conversations littered with ‘polite-isms’ to conceal the fact that they’re seething. Hannah Ewens thinks this could be solved by everyone having more arguments and confrontations

Politics