Esther Rantzen: ‘I’ve become one of the funny old ladies I used to talk to in the street’ | Television & radio
A while into my Zoom interview with Esther Rantzen, her phone rings. She apologises, says she must switch it off,
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Mental health
‘They are scared to try new things’: how is home school impacting young children? | Life and style
It is fair to say that Wells, eight, does not enjoy remote learning. “It’s horrible,” he tells a group of
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Fazel Chegeni wanted ‘nothing but peace’. Instead he died alone in Australia’s island prison | Australia news
The jungle north-east of Christmas Island’s immigration detention centre is dark and unforgiving. A person, seeking refuge or release, can
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‘I got a whole new mindset’: the health secrets of people who got much fitter in lockdown | World news
Before Covid-19, an ordinary evening for Tim Ludford, a charity worker, looked something like this: after-work drinks with colleagues; an
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Generation Z and the Covid pandemic: ‘I have pressed pause on my life’ | UK news
Aryan Nair, eight Aryan Nair lives with his parents, Rakesh and Swetha, and younger brother in south London I remember
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From Sudan to the Park Inn: the tragic story of a migrant’s killing | UK news
On the last Friday of June, at about midday, Badreddin Abadlla Adam left his room at the Park Inn hotel
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How one man spent 34 years in prison after setting fire to a pair of curtains | News
There’s never a good time to get a phone call from an escaped prisoner. I was at a talent show
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Instagram at 10: how sharing photos has entertained us, upset us – and changed our sense of self | Technology
The most-downloaded app of 2010 made the photographs you took on your phone look way cooler. Vintage-effect filters, artful vignettes
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One, two, free! 25 brilliant ways to escape 2020’s groundhog days | World news
Back in March, most of us were too busy hunting for toilet paper to worry about boredom. But as the
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