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• Use of ‘culture wars’ phrase ‘a dog whistle to attack the right’ Badenoch tells GB News Tory leadership special – as it happened October 17, 2024
  Contender says ‘it is about being brave and not being scared that the Guardian is going to mock us’Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has told MPs that magistrates are getting powers to sentence offenders for longer – to reduce the number of prisoners being held on remand and to cut the backlog in crown courtsIn […]
  Tom Ambrose (now) and Andrew Sparrow (earlier)
• University in Lisbon suspends plans for course on racism taught by all-white staff October 16, 2024
  Nova university programme criticised for only having white instructors and for some of its content, such as session on ‘does racism really exist?’A top university in Lisbon has suspended plans to launch a postgraduate programme on racism and xenophobia after the course was criticised for hiring only white instructors.The programme, offered by the faculty of […]
  Ashifa Kassam European Community affairs correspondent
• Ireland’s big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives October 16, 2024
  The transition year led Paul Mescal and Cillian Murphy to become actors – and has had similarly seismic effects on thousands of secondary school students. Should other countries follow suit?‘If you know your Flann O’Brien, you’ll know that bike maintenance and philosophy go arse-on-saddle in this country,” Niall Hare, the 63-year-old headteacher at Kishoge community […]
  Zoe Williams
• County Durham school drops plan to turn off heat on climate ‘blue nose day’ October 16, 2024
  Wolsingham school’s carbon-cutting event had been planned by pupils but parents raised concernsA school has made a U-turn on a student-led plan to turn the heating off for a “blue nose” climate action day after parents raised concerns.The heating was due to be turned off at Wolsingham school, County Durham, on Friday but the plan […]
  Mark Brown North of England correspondent
• Did you solve it? The enigma of Randall Munroe October 14, 2024
  The answers to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set the following two puzzles. Here they are again with solutions.The first is by Randall Munroe, cartoonist of the webcomic xkcd and author of the bestselling book What If? Continue reading...
  Alex Bellos
• Anti-Zionist beliefs ‘worthy of respect’, UK tribunal finds October 14, 2024
  Judges say unfairly dismissed academic David Miller’s views on Israel should be protected by antidiscrimination lawsThe belief that Israel’s actions amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are “worthy of respect in a democratic society”, an employment tribunal has concluded in a landmark decision.In February the tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly discriminated […]
  Matthew Weaver and agencies
• Make black history mandatory in England to counter hatred, urges campaigner October 14, 2024
  Summer riots were a consequence of relegating the subject to just one month, says Black Curriculum founder Black history must be made mandatory in England to counter hatred and help prevent racist riots, a leading campaigner says.Lavinya Stennett, who founded the Black Curriculum, warned of the real risks of black history and a diverse curriculum […]
  Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent
• Can you solve it? The enigma of Randall Munroe October 14, 2024
  And an intersection of squaresUPDATE: The solutions are upToday’s first puzzle was penned by Randall Munroe, cartoonist of the webcomic xkcd and author of the bestselling book What If?For the (surely) very few readers who have never heard of him, Munroe, a former NASA roboticist, is probably the world’s premier science humorist. Continue reading...
  Alex Bellos