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Nigel Slater’s recipe for pink grapefruit jelly and clotted cream ice-cream

A grown-up take on a childhood favourite

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2025

‘I hate my school’: why are more British teenagers plotting shooting attacks?

Experts say young men and boys ‘with strong sense of grievance’ are ‘idolising’ shooters involved in US massacres. They are also falling through the gaps of UK terrorism laws

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025

‘Pupils are in fear every day’: parents raise concerns about new schools run by top UK academy

Emergency meeting called over strictness of discipline at Essex schools run by Mossbourne Federation

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2025

Local and State Police Are Joining Trump’s ‘Deportation Force’

Texas law enforcement agencies and others around the nation are reviving a long-dead "task force" program that led to racial profiling in the past.

Texas Observer · Feb 27, 2025

Congressmen Demand Investigation of ICE Prosecutor Running Racist X Account

Following the Observer’s reporting, three U.S. House members have demanded accountability, while James Rodden still appeared on an ICE court schedule this week.

Texas Observer · Feb 26, 2025

Jennifer Johnston, celebrated Irish novelist and playwright, dies aged 95

Once lauded ‘the best writer in Ireland’, Johnston began publishing in her 40s and was Booker-shortlisted for her 1977 novel set during the Troubles, Shadows on Our Skin

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2025

Did Mike Miles’ Former Charter School Network Fail to Provide Required Classes?

A Third Future Schools-Texas elementary school in Midland has been accused of neglecting social studies and physical education.

Texas Observer · Feb 25, 2025

Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya; The South by Tash Aw review – love under the eye of the law

Two contrasting but equally impressive Asia-set coming-of-age novels explore gay teenagers navigating their nascent sexuality against the backdrop of personal and political upheavals

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2025

Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen and other creatives urge government

More than 2,000 cultural figures challenge Whitehall’s eagerness ‘to ­wrap our lives’ work in attractive paper for automated competitors’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2025

Home Office contractor collected data on UK citizens while checking migrants’ finances

Official sent email to charity that suggested Home Office had data on ‘hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting Britons’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2025