29 h. ago Tory war of words erupts as Theresa May hits out at Kemi Badenoch's 'catastrophic' climate plan

The Tory war of words erupted as the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said she would axe the world-leading Climate Change Act first introduced by the last Labour government

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3 d. ago 'Muddled mess': SNP education secretary won't say if males can still use girls' school toilets

Jenny Gilruth was asked repeatedly whether biological males can use the girls’ toilets in schools but refused to answer the question

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3 d. ago Pete Hegseth is terrified of assassination and is ‘crawling out of his skin:’ report

The U.S. Secretary of War has been described by his staff as ‘manic,’ frequently erupting into angry rants

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3 d. ago Mom stuns school board meeting as she STRIPS to protest transgender students using girls' locker rooms

Beth Bourne, the chair of Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, stripped at the Davis Joint Unified School Board meeting on September 18.

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4 d. ago New Scottish Government guidance on school toilets is "muddled" and "still unlawful"

The Scottish Government has published guidance for schools on supporting transgender pupils, which says schools must have separate boys and girls toilets.

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4 d. ago Scots schools must provide separate toilets for boys and girls after SNP Government forced to issue new guidance

SNP ministers previously told schools there was no law which meant pupils had to use toilets and changing rooms based on their biological sex.

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4 d. ago New Scottish Government guidance says schools must have separate toilets for boys and girls

The Scottish Government has published guidance for schools on supporting transgender pupils, which says schools must have separate boys and girls toilets.

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4 d. ago War erupts at one of Australia's top private schools after girls refuse to use bathroom over transgender decision: 'We got a bit uncomfortable'

A war has erupted at a top Australian private school.

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5 d. ago Win a copy of Say You’ll Be There By Nina Millns in this week’s Fabulous book competition

WHEN Arianna, Tess, Candace and Dana dress up as the same Spice Girl for their school’s Red Nose Day in 1997, a friendship is born. Fast-forward to 2017, and they’re no longer in touch – until Candace contacts the others to say Dana is missing and she needs their help. This powerful story of survival...

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6 d. ago Labour delegates are strangers to sound economic sense as an alcoholic is to sobriety. That's why they'll lap up the Burnham blueprint, writes ANDREW NEIL

As it gathers for its annual conference in Liverpool this weekend Labour is in the grip of a civil war which threatens to erupt in the coming months into open hostilities, ripping it asunder.

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7 d. ago Mother of tragic teenage girl killed in truck collision after struggles at £50,000

'Hardworking' teenager Georgia Scarff had been struggling to cope at £50,000-a-year Royal Hospital School in Holbrook, Suffolk, when she died, the hearing has been told.

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8 d. ago Teenage girl, 17, dies from electric shock while walking to school in the rain

Nathaly Rodrigues do Nascimento, 17, was walking to school in Bonfinopolis, Brazil, when she stepped into a road during heavy rain - just as a power line broke and electrocuted her in the street

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9 d. ago The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship

Kim A Snyder’s documentary highlights the defenders of young readers’ rights to see their lives in print facing rightwing attacksThere is real and genuine fear about young people’s use of pornography; usually, that conversation is about exposure to porn online, not in libraries. But this excellent culture wars documentary tells the story of book-banning in red states such as Florida and Texas, where religious rightwingers are crusading to protect children from “obscene” books. Usually that means titles about LGBTQ+ issues or race, and books about girls getting their period aren’t safe either. In Tennessee, a school board banned Maus, the graphic novel memoir of the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman, for mouse nudity. The utter nonsense of it would be funny if it wasn’t so disturbing.The most recent purge began in 2021 with a list of 850 books circulated by Texas state representative Matt Krause (over 60% were books with LGBTQ+ themes). Rightwing Florida governor Ron DeSantis piled in, fol...

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1 week ago Jack McConnell’s charity which sends impoverished girls to school in Malawi raises £35,000 with kilt walk

The programme helps 200 girls in the east African country with scholarships to attend secondary school.

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1 week ago Sick teacher who 'subtly groomed' pupil, 15, and suggested 'move to Dubai' is jailed

Amir Makda, 32, would meet the girl after school, take her for rides in his car and sent her sexual messages over the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, where he first contacted her

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1 week ago ‘Send your daughters or you get no aid’: the Taliban are making religious schools girls’ only option

Food handouts and employment are increasingly tied to Afghan families’ agreement to strict Islamic educationWhen the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Nahid, 24, was midway through an economics degree. She had hoped to work in a university after she graduated.Instead, Nahid now spends her mornings at a religious school in the basement of a mosque in the western city of Herat, sitting on the floor and reciting scripture with 50 other women and girls, all dressed in black from head to toe. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'My husband killed a classroom of schoolgirls but I've forgiven him for key reason'

Marie Monville's husband Charlie Roberts shot dead five girls and injured five more in a school massacre - but she says she has forgiven him for his horrific act

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2 w. ago As boys shift to the right, we are seeing the rise of the ‘new chill girl’ | Naomi Beinart

Even in comparatively liberal spaces, such as my high school, girls who wince at locker room talk risk exclusionSince Donald Trump returned to office, I have noticed a phenomenon at my high school that I call the “new chill girl”. A group of kids is talking casually about something. Seemingly out of the blue, one of the boys makes an off-handed joke. Maybe it’s racist or sexist or homophobic, but whatever the poison, they inject it and the group dynamic shifts ever so slightly. As a general rule, the boys continue as usual while the girls – who tend to be more politically progressive – face a choice: they can speak up, which usually results in them getting the reputation as annoying and unable to take a joke, or they can let it pass and be regarded as a chill girl who isn’t angry or woke. Since November 2024, the latter reaction has become far more common.This kind of fearful silence is becoming more common outside of high schools, too. In December of 2024, Disney removed a transgen...

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2 w. ago The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review – a propulsive story of German resistance

A thriller-like account of the influential men and women who opposed Hitler and paid a terrible priceOn 10 September 1943, a loose group of well-connected friends met in a small apartment in the Charlottenberg area of Berlin. The host was Elisabeth von Thadden and the nominal reason for the get-together was her younger sister’s 50th birthday. Really, though, this was a cover story for nine influential people meeting to discuss what should happen now that it was clear that Hitler was losing the war.Otto Kiep, a former diplomat, talked hopefully about how Mussolini’s recent toppling meant that Italy was ready to make peace with the allies, while political hostess Hanna Solf gleefully anticipated the moment when Hitler fell: “We’ll put him against a wall.” Meanwhile, Von Thadden herself, a devout Protestant and former headteacher of an elite girls’ school, warned of the humanitarian crisis that would follow the end of hostilities. For those who gathered on that late summer’s day f...

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2 w. ago Conflict, aid cuts and equality backlash causing ‘stagnation and regression’ of women’s rights – UN

Report calls on governments to commit to renewed action at general assembly in New York, saying ‘a different path is still possible’Hard-won progress on women’s access to healthcare, rights and employment is being put at risk from global conflict, cuts to aid spending, and a backlash against gender equality, according to a UN equality watchdog.A woman’s chance of dying in pregnancy or childbirth is more than a third lower than it was 25 years ago, UN Women said in its annual report, while girls are more likely to complete school than ever before. It also found that rates of intimate partner violence were 2.5 times lower in countries that had introduced comprehensive measures on violence. Continue reading...

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