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• The Guardian view on Brexit barriers and the young: a new deal is needed | Editorial

  01-05-2023 20:18
  
  A House of Lords report is right to demand action to restore lost possibilities to the under-30sAn estimated three-quarters of young people aged between 18 and 24 voted remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum. Many did so in the conviction that leaving the European Union would turn Britain into a smaller, more insular place, closing off possibilities and prospects in their own lives. They feared a birthright was being lost; one which allowed them a bigger, wider sense of belonging.Seven years on, t
  
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• Did you solve it? Chicken or egg

  01-05-2023 18:00
  
  The answers to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set you these puzzles, in memory of Ivan Moscovich, the toy and puzzle maestro who died last week. (Click here to find out more about him.)Here are the puzzles again, with solutions. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Cost of eating’ crisis: price of school lunches up by a third in parts of England

  01-05-2023 16:49
  
  Exclusive: Increases since 2019 also outstrip funding for free school meals as costs jump, Lib Dems findThe price of school lunches has increased by more than a third in parts of England, increasing the pressure on school finances and family budgets during the cost of living crisis, according to figures revealed by the Liberal Democrats.Families with two children can be facing a bill for more than £1,000 a year for school lunches, a rise of more than £200 since 2019, because of infla
  
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• Texas guts ‘woke civics’. Now kids can't engage in a key democratic process

  01-05-2023 13:00
  
  Many states have restricted how schools can teach race and gender, but only Texas has banned student interaction with elected officialsThe defining experience of Jordan Zamora-Garcia’s high school career – a hands-on group project in civics class that spurred a new city ordinance in his Austin suburb – would now violate Texas law.Since Texas lawmakers in 2021 passed a ban on lessons teaching that any one group is “inherently racist, sexist or oppressive”, a little-n
  
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• Can you solve it? Chicken or egg

  01-05-2023 08:10
  
  Brain games from a master puzzlerUPDATE: To read the answers click hereToday’s column is a tribute to Ivan Moscovich, a legend in the world of puzzles, who died last week aged 96. Ivan was a prolific inventor of toys and games, a pioneer of interactive science museums and a bestselling author of puzzle books. The following questions are taken from his magnum opus, The Big Book of Brain Games, which sold around half a million copies.(More about Ivan’s amazing life below.) Continue rea
  
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• Failure isn’t shameful – in fact, it’s the perfect reason to have an ice-cream | Emma Beddington

  01-05-2023 08:00
  
  Unsuccessful US college applicants have started having cathartic parties to ‘celebrate’. I think they might be on to somethingHigh school students in the US are tackling the brutal process of college applications with rejection parties, the New York Times reported last week. At one school, students bring along a printout of their college rejections, ceremonially feed them into a shredder, then get an ice-cream; there is a prize for the most rejected. It sounds wonderful: a cathartic,
  
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• Press release: Wildflowers seeds for every primary school class in honour of the Coronation

  01-05-2023 01:15 via gov.uk
  
  To mark the Coronation all state funded primary schools will be sent wildflower seeds, inspired by His Majesty The King’s love of nature
  
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