YOU WONT BELIEVE: 50 - What They Never Told You

‘For a second, I don’t know who I am’: Ruby Wax on her stay in a mental health clinic

In this extract from her new book, the comedian and writer gives a Zoom talk about depression from her hospital room

The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2023

Low pay, fuel fines, cramped cabs: drivers at haulier used by major retailers speak out

Employees at Lithuanian freight operator Girteka complain of hard conditions on the road, including one who says he fell seriously ill but co-drove his truck 800 miles after emerging from hospital

The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2023

‘Happy and glorious’: what the papers say after King Charles’s coronation

Souvenir editions abound and positive appraisals dominate amid descriptions from ‘his crowning moment’ to ‘king of the world’

The Guardian - AU · May 7, 2023

An image that should never have been published, and lessons that must be learned

Errors led to the publication of a cartoon of BBC chairman Richard Sharp, its withdrawal and an apology, says Elisabeth Ribbans, the Guardian and Observer’s global readers’ editor

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2023

Students Pay as Texas School Districts Violate ‘Threat Assessment Law’

A Texas Observer investigation found 90 percent of districts fail to comply with a law that requires mental-health intervention for students of concern.

Texas Observer · May 3, 2023

Blocked, censored, jailed or laid off: why it’s never been harder to be a journalist

On World Press Freedom Day, readers can make a difference to struggling independents via supporter models that beat the censors

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2023

Dog shot dead on Scots farm in sheep-worrying incident

A dog was shot dead following a sheep-worrying incident in Alva at the weekend. Police were called to a farm in the village at around 6.15am on Saturday. A police spokesperson confirmed to the Observer that a dog was “shot and destroyed during the

Daily Record · May 2, 2023

AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind

I rumbled a chatbot ruse – but as the tech improves, and news outlets begin to adopt it, how easy will it be to spot it next time?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023

Five Tory councillors suspended for alleged racism standing in local elections

Conservative candidates in this week’s polls include several who were reinstated after accusations of racism and Islamophobia

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023

Keir Starmer says he was ‘shocked’ by Diane Abbott’s letter to the Observer

Labour leader ‘could not believe what he was reading’ when he saw letter saying Jewish, Irish and Traveller people not subject to racism

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023