As a record 119,789 people in UK test positive for Covid, here is how to keep the Christmas spirit alive on your ownBetter days ahead: those self-isolating look on the bright sideHo, ho … oh no. This second Covid Christmas will not be a huge improvemen…
Black girls in England ‘twice as likely to be excluded from schools as white girls’
Data also shows that school exclusions for girls are growing at higher rate than for boysBlack and minority ethnic girls in England are more than twice as likely to be excluded from school as their white counterparts, according to a report.Equality cam…
Hilary Mantel contrasts Dominic Cummings with Thomas Cromwell
Author adds Cromwell wouldn’t have gone on holiday during a crisis, in apparent shot at Dominic RaabDame Hilary Mantel has said Dominic Cummings “created a picture of himself as an outsider” that was intrinsic to his rise, while Thomas Cromwell had bee…
UK going backwards on tackling media’s racism, warns new Voice editor
Lester Holloway of Britain’s only black national newspaper points to a ‘regression’ in recognising inequalityThe new editor of Britain’s only black national newspaper has warned the UK is going backwards in recognising institutional racism in the media…