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• Kathleen Stock says she is a ‘moderate’ as protests planned over Oxford debate

  29-05-2023 23:58
  
  Former professor who argues trans people cannot expect all rights afforded by biological sex is due to speak at Oxford UnionKathleen Stock, the gender-critical feminist whose forthcoming address to Oxford university students on Tuesday has prompted planned protests, has insisted that she is a “moderate” and has a right to upset people.Before her contested appearance at the Oxford Union, Stock said it was her trans activist opponents, who want the event cancelled, who were extreme. Co
  
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• Boys ‘mustn’t be afraid of female-led books’, says author Joanne Harris

  29-05-2023 20:40
  
  Teaching must change to prevent violence against women, she said at Hay festival, also speaking on narratives of menopauseBoys should be encouraged to read books about girls, said author Joanne Harris, because “a boy who is afraid to read a book with a girl protagonist will grow up into a man who feels that it’s inappropriate for him to listen to a woman’s voice”.The author of Chocolat told an audience at the Hay festival in Wales that if violence against women was to be
  
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• Did you solve it? Rotation, rotation, rotation

  29-05-2023 18:00
  
  The answers to today’s mind-spinnersEarlier today I set you these three puzzles. Here they are again with solutions.1. Roll with it Continue reading...
  
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• More than 90 English primary schools to close or face closure for lack of pupils

  29-05-2023 13:34
  
  Guardian analysis lays bare effect of dwindling pupil numbers and associated funding amid rising housing and childcare costs‘Where am I going to send my children?’: anguish as schools closeMore than 90 English primary schools – many of them in cities and towns – are to close or are at risk of closure because they are more than two-thirds empty, according to Guardian analysis of government data.A combination of falling birth rates and the urban exodus of young families in
  
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• ‘Where am I going to send my children?’: anguish as schools close across England

  29-05-2023 13:14
  
  In Lewes, a catholic primary may shut as parents are driven out by lack of affordable housing while parents of London school face ‘terrible decision’More than 90 English primary schools to close or face closure for lack of pupilsSonia Tann says she has woken in tears every morning since parents were informed that her local school, St Pancras Catholic primary in Lewes, East Sussex, could be forced to close next year.A final decision will not be taken until the autumn, but with a daugh
  
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• Students graduate around the country, with flags, politicians and a furry friend

  29-05-2023 12:00
  
  A Colorado student defied officials with a Mexican flag, the vice-president visited West Point and a service animal lent a pawA Colorado high school student defied a federal judge’s ruling and wore a Mexican flag sash to her high school graduation after fending off repeated resistance from the school.The event was just one of a clutch of unusual graduations and commencements across the country in the last week, with some firsts – and one furry companion. Continue reading...
  
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• We desperately need a government who will say it: Britain is still reeling from Covid | John Harris

  29-05-2023 07:00
  
  Pupil absence is soaring. Long-term sickness is hammering the workforce. Yet some senior Tories expend all their energy on defending Boris JohnsonOf all the factions and cliques in and around the modern Conservative party, none is grimmer than the small gang who think that Boris Johnson is the victim of conspiracies involving the fabled “blob”, and that the condition of their party – and, indeed, the country – would be a thousand times better if only he was still in Downi
  
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