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Sir Keir Starmer’s overhaul of the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is finally out. But it seems much of the educational world, while broadly positive today, is withholding its final verdict as there’s still so much we don’t know or have not fully digested. We don’t know whether the money to create special…
When you ask twins Hudson and Chance December about their unusual last name, itβs like thereβs a secret to be kept. In fact, the two junior baseball players at El Camino Real have a famous father who changed his last name to December. Thatβs Nathan December, a rock guitarist who was a side musician with…
An armed man was shot and killed Sunday morning after he entered the secure perimeter of President Trumpβs private Florida residence and resort, Mar-a-Lago, and was confronted by U.S. Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County sheriffβs deputy. The man killed was identified by investigators as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin from North Carolina, according…
If you’ve ever spent your morning commute daydreaming about starting afresh with your career, this feature is for you. Each Monday, we speak to someone from a different profession to discover what it’s really like. Today we speak to Alistair McFarlane, chief operating officer of game design company Facepunch Studios and the executive producer of…
This story contains spoilers for Episode 6 of βA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.β Ira Parker intended the very last scene of βA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,β Episode 6 (titled βThe Morrowβ), to be just βsomething that was a little funny.β Sundayβs season finale of the HBO fantasy series ends with everyone, including the…
Mainstream schools will receive direct funding to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) as part of a Β£4bn package to make the system more inclusive. Targeted interventions such as small-group language work will receive funding, and there will be help for staff to introduce adaptive teaching styles, as part of a major…
All of the current Lakers realized that playing against the Boston Celtics on national television really was more than just one of 82 games on the schedule. It was crystallized even more because iconic former Lakers coach Pat Riley sat courtside after a celebration for the unveiling of his statue on the Star Plaza outside…
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We used to have more films like βMidwinter Break,β in which the combination of a couple of great actors, a gifted writer and the unfussy shepherding of a thorny, intimate scenario gave discerning moviegoers their recommended weekly allowance of adult drama about the human condition. Thatβs no longer the case, so you would be forgiven…
She’s anything but the traditional stuffy Whitehall mandarin in the mould of Sir Humphrey Appleby in TV’s Yes Minister. Britain’s new top civil servant, Dame Antonia Romeo, 51, might even seem a surprising choice as the new cabinet secretary – the first woman to do the job – for a prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer,…
