3 d. ago Donald Trump blasts claims bitter feud with Harvard is because he didn't get in

The Orange Manbaby’s vendetta started in April when he claimed that the top US university had become too woke and left-wing – but it's not because he didn't get in

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3 d. ago Texas becomes latest state to push for political control over ‘woke’ universities

The legislation marks the latest effort among Republican-led states to reshape higher education institutions

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5 d. ago Exclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance

Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates saySenior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned.The edict, laid down in emails on Friday by Curt Cashour, the VA’s assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, and John Bartrum, a senior adviser to VA secretary Doug Collins, came hours after the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective co-authored by two pulmonologists who work for the VA in Texas. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Doctors thought I was just hungover. Days later my life completely changed

Nia Tyler was settling in for her final year at university when she woke up with a headache. What happened next left her shell-shocked and she is still living with the effects today

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1 week ago Woke university launches 'Adulting 101' course for embarrassingly basic life skills fragile students can't handle

A renowned university has launched a bizarre 'Adulting 101' crash course for pampered students who can't perform the most basic life tasks that experts say parents have shielded them from.

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1 week ago Backlash over Kermit the Frog delivering 'woke' university's commencement address

Kermit the Frog's University of Maryland commencement address is being slammed by conservatives who say the unconventional speech was tasteless and tone deaf.

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1 week ago Texas is closer to putting the Ten Commandments in classrooms after a key vote

A push to put the Ten Commandments on display in all Texas public school classrooms is closer to reaching Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's desk

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2 w. ago ‘I’m from Glasgow – the swearing came naturally!’ The full uncensored history of The Thick of It

It was the political satire that gave us omnishambles, pet asbos and the terrifying Malcolm Tucker. Two decades on, creator Armando Iannucci and stars including Peter Capaldi and Rebecca Front lift the lid on its chaotic creationTwenty years ago this month we were plunged straight into the middle of an omnishambles. It was a moment in time when petrified politicians lurched from crisis to crisis, scrambling desperately to control the narrative as their endless gaffes derailed even the vaguest attempts to change this country for the better. But am I talking about the tail-end of the Blair years or the televisual tour-de-force that was Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It?It could be either. It could even be right now – such was the show’s prescient genius. This was a satire that didn’t just mimic the government’s calamities but seemed somehow to foresee them. Over its seven-year run, The Thick of It came up with farcical policies that the government went on to adopt (pet asbos, anyone?...

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3 w. ago UK politics live: Starmer vows to ‘take back control of borders’ as he unveils tighter immigration rules

Starmer announces every area of UK’s immigration system will be tightened

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