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How can we stop destroying the prospects of a generation? Scrapping compulsory GCSE resits will be a start | Polly Toynbee

One Place News — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:40:56 +0000

Michael Gove calls the axing of his Tory strategy ‘bringing back stupid’. He doesn’t seem to care that it did more harm than good

GCSE results day was marked with the usual front pages filled with pictures of beaming students. What you didn’t see was the invisible third of 16-year-olds in England who failed their maths and English GCSEs, the obstacle to their future.

That’s 360,000 failed in a system designed by Michael Gove as education minister to mark out winners from losers. It’s a cast of mind shared by many in his party who still yearn for the 11-plus, which consigned a random number of children to failure before they’d hardly begun. A few councils still do it.

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

"Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research

One Place News — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:41:02 +0000

The federal agency tasked with studying ways to improve America’s outstandingly poor healthcare system is “on the brink,” experts warn. The Trump administration has cut its staff by 75 percent, canceled its grants en masse, and is refusing to spend tens of millions of dollars appropriated by Congress.

Whether the agency “will survive the second Trump administration is an open question,” health policy experts Aaron Carroll and David Atkins wrote in an opinion piece published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The agency in question is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which has focused on ways to improve patient safety, healthcare quality, care delivery, and new technologies and practices since the 1990s. In the past, “Republican leaders recognized that health care disparities were fundamental quality problems,” Carroll and Atkins wrote. But recently, disparities in care have become partisan issues.

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Levin: Spain is DESTROYING itself…

One Place News — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:46:15 +0000

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FIFA ‘destroying football’ for the World Cup, says Spanish football chief

One Place News — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:05:29 +0000

In a scathing interview, La Liga President Javier Tebas says FIFA chief Gianni Infantino’s time is 'over'.