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The scandalous mendacity of the Department of Education and, in particular, Michael Gove. The man who wants to rewrite history, who wants his name in every school bible, is using PR guff from Premier Inn and UKGold as 'evidence' for his crusade. Frightening.
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“Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify...
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A teenager who was diagnosed with autism and told he would never be able to read has been tipped as a future Nobel prize winner.
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John Gray revives the memory of a supernatural Walter de la Mare story to discuss materialism - the theory that only matter exists.
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Ghosts in the machine - The natural and the supernatural
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Honoring natural selection's most baffling creations. Go home, evolution, you are drunk.
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This is the rifle that was given to A FIVE YEAR OLD as a BIRTHDAY PRESENT in Kentucky. Sadly the child fired it and killed his 2-year-old sister. No charges have been brought. What on earth are we doing to each other? What are we doing to our children?
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IBM scientists use a few dozen atoms as stars in their film A Boy and his Atom, which has garnered the title of world's smallest movie.
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Hartlepool's mayor, famously elected when he was a football mascot, assesses his 11-year term in office as he prepares to stand down.
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I think this is a fascinating, inspiring tale of people power - this is how I want my Democracy to work
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The idea of setting up an independent professional body for teaching is gaining momentum, with supporters setting out how it might work.
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An interesting proposal. I'm not sure about the 'Royal' element but in reality it tends to add gravitas - it would be good if we had some other descriptor that was similarly weighty. In any profession, good governance comes from within the profession whereas in the UK teachers are subject to impossible levels of outside interference so that teaching has become more of a political tool than a social education medium. I suspect many teachers will welcome this, but I look warily at the Royal College of Nursing, who have been in the dock over recent years for failure to protect the profession and the public - any National Teaching College would need to learn lessons from history.
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The European Space Agency says its flagship Herschel telescope, the most powerful infrared observatory ever put in orbit, has run out of coolant and stopped working.
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But hasn't it provided scientists with a wealth of data to enhance our understanding, and haven't the images it produced been some of the most stunning ever seen? It has been a wonderful thing to grow up with...
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Irish psychiatrists say they will not participate in any compulsory assessment of suicidal pregnant women seeking an abortion.
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The College of Psychiatry in Ireland said its members would not be the country's "social police".
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A Christian evangelical movement where followers avoid contraception and have as many children as they can is spreading to the UK.
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US President Obama says the UK should try to "fix" its relationship with the EU before "breaking it off" after White House talks with David Cameron.
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Elite institutions will team up with the Open University to offer free internet courses through FutureLearn, a new company that will rival US programmes Coursera and edX
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A teenager from London wins a $100,000 fellowship from one of the original Facebook investors and the man behind PayPal.
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i worked for 5 years before uni - wish someone had paid me $100k not to go for 2 years...
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Equalities minister Jo Swinson praises staff at a Glasgow hospital for "keeping her alive" after an allergic reaction to a biscuit.
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It is great that she had instant access to evidence-based medicine through the National Health Service - one of the real Jewels in the British crown. Thank goodness she did not have to rely on something useless like homeopathy, which has led to so many people in the Indian subcontinent dying because it is completely ineffective.
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A tragic story, really, rather than a celebratory one..
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A member of Facebook's Safety Advisory Board is one of several charities calling on it to block the spread of videos showing people being beheaded.
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A clip too far? Moral compass or censorship? Is there a line to draw, and if so where? And who draws it?
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A top mathematician has deciphered coded messages in WW2 letters sent from imprisoned British naval officer John Pryor to his family.
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A Sinn Fein motion calling on the Northern Ireland Executive to legislate to allow for same sex marriage is defeated in the Assembly by 53 votes to 42.
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Somehow, Northern Ireland yet again misses out on the zeitgeist. It just underlines how essintial it is to separate church and state. No democracy should find the church trumping the wishes of the state.
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It's a landmark birthday, the perfect time to take stock of one's life so far. So what has The Thick Of It writer Ian Martin discovered now he has entered his seventh decade?
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I cannot remember ever before feeling the visceral contempt I have for this gang of posh sociopaths. As a rough guide, I would say any government that sets the welfare of the comfortably off above the welfare of the old, the young, the sick, the poor, the oppressed, the disabled … well, call me old-fashioned but any government like that wants hosing down the drain.
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Police should focus more on preventing crime than catching criminals, the new chief inspector of constabulary for England and Wales is to say.
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Everyone who was at #qedcon this year heard from Stevyn Colgan about his decades of work in this area whilst a Met Police Officer. Good to hear that after 30 years it might finally be catching on at the top!
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Students plan to boycott the event – billed as 'a night of decadence' – amid concerns about the animal's welfare
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"It's worrying that a leading educational institution such as an Oxford college would allow that view of nature to be perpetuated, of animals as an extravagant, gaudy show. If the organisers won't cancel the shark then we won't attend and we will ask others to boycott the event as well.
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