Children’s Mental Health Week falls between 7 to 13th February this year. To mark this important event in the school calendar, Dorset Mind charity’s children and young people division, ‘Dorset Mind Your Head’ (DMYH), is marking the week with a series of mental health workshops and activities focussing on building resilience at Dorchester Middle School.
On Saturday, at the...
This was not supposed to be aspirational:
Our IQ levels are falling, and no one knows exactly why. But scientists largely agree on this: It's due to something in the environment, not to the presence of more people with less-than-stellar genes.
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The UK left the European Union at the beginning of 2020,...
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The Jewish Chronicle warns that the dismissal of Prof David Miller is ‘just the beginning’
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The University of Bristol as we know succumbed to a longstanding pro-Israel pressure campaign targeted at Professor David Miller, based on his important scholarship on Islamophobia.
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We know what happened we were there. However, as soon as the corporate propagandists got their slimy claws on to it it became something distorted and ugly. Sadly it resembled many of the opinions of those who read their far right nonsense day in, day out.
It is tragic but...
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Absolutely beyond belief (excuse the pun).
'My daughter is revising for her RE GCSE this week. In their work book she showed me this question, and at the back, the answers. The question explicitly asks for answers based on religious teachings or sacred texts. The answer is straight out of...
