On a train recently, I had the good fortune of sitting next to two who had just finished their GCSEs and were on their way to Milo’s party in Bath. Milo, I discovered, was having the party at his ...

As UK schools struggle with behaviour problems, a new breed boast of high grades and obedient students – but at what cost?

Within this context, the kidulting trend has been frowned upon as further evidence that younger generations are immature and turning their backs on the realities of life. Take the hot-pink cultural ...

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A boy and his mother travel in an auto-rickshaw in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Credit: Jody Ray It’s the start of the rainy season in Sierra Leone, the west African country known for its beautiful beaches ...

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Many of us suffer from the cognitive bias known as the “just world fallacy”. The sense that the world should be a fair place can easily slide into the belief that it is a fair place and that people ...

As Ernest Hemingway famously claimed, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” In his latest novel, James, Percival Everett reimagines Twain’s ...