Covid’s lost generation: Devastating report lays bare the £350bn toll on children

Two new schools will challenge the practise of pupils sitting exams at age 16.   Former Downing Street aide to Tony Blair, Peter Hyman, along with brothers Ben and Tobyn Thomas, who own Thomas’s Battersea where Prince George and Princess Charlotte are pupils, are backing a campaign to scrap GCSE exams. They will be opening secondary … Read more

Covid’s lost generation: Devastating report lays bare the £350bn toll on children

Two new schools will challenge the practise of pupils sitting exams at age 16.   Former Downing Street aide to Tony Blair, Peter Hyman, along with brothers Ben and Tobyn Thomas, who own Thomas’s Battersea where Prince George and Princess Charlotte are pupils, are backing a campaign to scrap GCSE exams. They will be opening secondary … Read more

Massive tax shortfall shows Covid’s devastating economic impact

‘Our health emergency is not yet over,’ the Chancellor of the Exchequer said yesterday. ‘And our economic emergency has only just begun.’ Facing the steepest downturn since the Great Frost of 1709 – a slump in output of 11.3 per cent – Rishi Sunak said he was ready to spend, spend, spend to drag the … Read more

Cyberbullying affecting one in five children and Covids isolation is likely to have made it WORSE  

One in five schoolchildren – more than 750,000 – have experienced cyberbullying in the past year and experts warn coronavirus isolation is likely to have made it WORSE Nineteen per cent of youngsters aged 10-15 admitted they had been targeted  Being called names, sworn at or insulted was the most common form abuse But data … Read more

Barack Obama rips into Trump as ‘jealous of COVID’s media coverage’

Former President Barack Obama ripped into President Donald Trump over the Republican’s recent complains about the media’s constant focus on the coronavirus crisis.  ‘He’s jealous of COVID’s media coverage!’ Obama remarked to a crowd of 273 cars at a drive-in style event in Orlando, Florida Tuesday.   Trump made is clear he was watching Obama hammer him, … Read more

Barack Obama rips into Trump as ‘jealous of COVID’s media coverage’

Former President Barack Obama ripped into President Donald Trump over the Republican’s recent complains about the media’s constant focus on the coronavirus crisis.  ‘He’s jealous of COVID’s media coverage!’ Obama remarked to a crowd of 273 cars at a drive-in style event in Orlando, Florida Tuesday.   Trump made is clear he was watching Obama hammer him, … Read more

JOHN HUMPHRYS: Why the public is rising up against the response to Covid’s second wave

Eagle-eyed viewers of Mastermind may just have spotted something unusual when it returned to BBC2 last week. They would have noticed that there was no audience in the studio. That was blindingly obvious. Only the really sharp-eyed might have spotted that the presenter (yours truly) might — just possibly — have occasionally had a delicate … Read more

JOHN HUMPHRYS: Why the public is rising up against the response to Covid’s second wave

Eagle-eyed viewers of Mastermind may just have spotted something unusual when it returned to BBC2 last week. They would have noticed that there was no audience in the studio. That was blindingly obvious. Only the really sharp-eyed might have spotted that the presenter (yours truly) might — just possibly — have occasionally had a delicate … Read more