GCSE grades improve but campaigners warn tests take a toll on mental health
Many young people have been left feeling “disillusioned, disengaged and stressed”.
Meka Beresford
Meka Beresford is a journalist.
5 things we need to do to meet net-zero
At the current rate of progress, the government will miss it’s 2050 target – so what needs to be done?
Council housing residents blocked from accessing communal play area and gardens
The only building that has access to the gardens and play area is full of privately owned flats.
What is Boris Johnson’s Scotland problem?
He endorsed a poem saying Scots should be exterminated, and that’s just the start of it.
Government ‘missed opportunity’ to help UK’s most deprived
“It is astonishing that it has taken the Government so long to come up with a possible FEAD project.”
UK heatwave: how does Johnson’s cabinet stand on climate change?
In case you somehow missed it, today is the hottest day in July ever recorded.
Food rejected by supermarkets to be used to help end UK hunger
UK farms are throwing away 7% of their annual harvest worth £1.2 billion every year because it does not meet retailers quality standards.
First day on the job: MEPs dubbed as ’embarrassing’ Brits abroad
“This is petty, small-minded little England at its worst.”
Pounds over patients: medical consultants risk prioritising private profits, says study
In one extreme case, former breast surgeon Ian Paterson carried out unnecessary and damaging cancer surgery on over 750 women in order to profit.
Outrage as DWP says correct policy was followed in denying dying man benefits
“What kind of ‘policy’ cannot recognise that somebody is seriously ill & dying? As a doctor, I say this is barbaric.”