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‘To Know You More Clearly’: what the new catholic school syllabus means, one year in

The latest Catholic school syllabus reinforces conservative positions on sexuality, marriage and faith, discouraging pupils from exploring and asking questions.

Irredeemably Flawed: The IPP prisoner scandal, and the death of Matthew Price

Matthew had been free from prison for almost 10 years, when the hopelessness of his situation led him to take his own life – another victim of the IPP prisoner scandal

#TradWife: the misogynistic movement based on cosplaying an American ideal

The #TradWife movement claims to offer women a simple, structured and idealised life. In reality, it reduces women to property, in service to white nationalist agendas

Electronic advertising is a climate crime that makes our public spaces more hostile

The giant screen at Euston Station boasts of saving energy, while using more electricity than the average street, just to serve us adverts we didn't consent to see

Could ASMR be a possible explanation for some new age and spiritual experiences?

Reports of autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, bear a striking resemblance to the way some people describe their experience of reiki... and of religion

Agent Swift and sinking Tuvalu: Inventing fake conspiracy theories to teach critical thinking

Studying the details of conspiracy theories can take students so far, but they learn so much more by having to invent their own fake conspiracy plots

Dragons’ Den has a quackery problem that goes far beyond ear seeds

While recent attention has understandably been on Dragons' Den's promotion of ME/cfs quackery, the BBC show's flirtation with pseudoscience runs much deeper

Dragons’ Den’s uncritical promotion of ear seeds is an insult to ME/cfs patients like me

The Dragons' Den Acu Seeds debacle shows how understandably desperate ME/cfs are - and how vulnerable to misinformation from authoritative sources
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