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The poor state of school buildings is exposing pupils to “irreparable” harm, the UK’s children’s laureate has said, after a Guardian investigation revealed that more than 1.5 million students in England were being taught in dilapidated schools.

The award-winning screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce said the Conservative party’s decision to

After working from home, now comes working on the go. The post-pandemic surge in

hybrid working

Footfall at transport …

The science of happiness has spawned hundreds of thousands of studies, surveys, books and reviews, but what reliably lifts the spirits, to what extent, and who benefits most are still far from nailed down.

Now, psychologists have drawn up plans for the world’s largest happiness experiment to thrash out once …

In 1954, when 22-year-old Sydney model Shirley Beiger went on trial for the alleged murder of her live-in lover, hundreds of spectators, many of them women, queued outside Darlinghurst’s courthouse with sandwiches, Thermos flasks and even babies, hoping for a seat.

“They were yelling, ‘God bless you, Shirl’,” says award-winning …

When the scientist and inventor Prof Archibald Montgomery Low predicted “a day in the life of a man of the future” one century ago, his prophesies were sometimes dismissed as “ruthlessly imaginative”.

They included, reported the London Daily News in 1925, “such horrors” as being woken by radio alarm clock; …

I met Michael Mosley in 1995, when he asked me to audition to present a TV series he was creating called

Trust Me, I’m a Doctor

Scotland Yard has paid £5,000 in an out-of-court settlement after allegedly unlawfully imprisoning a 17-year-old who was wrongly accused of being at a pro-Palestine protest where a building was spray-painted.

The case is said by civil liberties campaigners to be compelling evidence of a heavy-handed approach by the Met to …

A potent symbol of empire that has been hidden for decades at one of London’s landmarks will be open to the public from February.

The restored Salt Stair at Somerset House will be home to an

exhibition exploring the pivotal role played by the Salt Office

It’s the time of the year for endless cliches. From “tis the season” and “the gift that keeps on giving” to “new year, new you”, there’s nowhere to hide from tired old phrases. One of my favourites is “Christmas comes around quicker each year” – which ignores the fact that …

The manosphere, the misogynist internet world populated by influencers such as Andrew Tate, is widely recognised as a toxic space where young men are at risk of radicalisation. Now, say researchers, women and girls are being sucked into potentially dangerous online spaces of their own: the femosphere.

It is a …