Climate change is much more existentially threatening than COVID-19
The pandemic has shown that change, when faced with a huge threat to life, is possible on a huge scale, says climate author Jennifer Crouch
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The hate-filled rhetoric of the radical right threatens democracy itself
Dr Neal Curtis warns there is an imminent threat of right-wing authoritarianism supplanting democracy.
We cannot carry on condemning our most vulnerable children to a lifetime of crime
Luxembourg provides a model of how we should treat minors in our criminal justice system, says Chris Daw QC
We remain one of the world’s richest countries at the expense of its poorest
The memory and experience of empire is built into the deep structure of how the UK engages with race, class and gender, says Peter Mitchell
Artificial intelligence could bring the benefits of private tuition to every child
Every learner should enjoy the benefits of private tutoring – and Ai could deliver it, writes Tom Moule
The five-day working week is an arbitrary invention
The 19th century five-day working week has no place in the 21st, says John Howkins
Everyone is responsible for creating a better world
We need more advocates for kindness, inclusion and positive change, says Karen Edwards
What if…Boris Johnson had gone to a state school?
How different would be Boris Johnson’s personality and politics if he had gone to a state school? SaySo asked a range of experts
Our society can’t afford the richest 1%
In these extracts from his book “Inequality and the Social Thinker” Danny Dorling lays bare the impact of the wealthy elite on the rest of society.
Our children are being trained to do jobs that robots and algorithms can already do
Britain’s schools are unfit for the future our children face, says ITVs political editor Robert Peston