EducationImpact of pornography not taught enough in schools in England, survey findsThree years after mandatory sex education introduced, results show issue of unsafe relationships also not taught sufficiently Students are not being taught enough about the impact of pornography and dangerous relationships, even as the threat of online misogyny increases, according to a survey.
Three years after the government introduced relationships and sex education (RSE), the survey reveals that young people feel they have seen no improvement in the quality of sex education they receive, and current teaching fails to tackle modern harms. Read More...
KissReviewResorts World Arena, Birmingham
The solos are dull, the banter crass, the songs often lacking in interest – and yet Kiss’s final tour is also a barrage of amazement
And so Kiss roll into Britain for their third last-ever-time. Their End of the Road tour – which has now lasted longer than the first world war and used nearly as many explosives – has already come to these shores in 2019 and 2022, each time promising to be the final UK shows (there was also a Kiss Farewell Tour in 2000-2001, but that didn’t make it to Europe). Read More...
The ObserverFictionReviewSix interlinked stories aim to capture the uncertainty of young adulthood today with mixed results
These six short stories are almost a novel, interlinked by characters who drift and reconnect with one another in the way friends do, living a big-city, post-university life. And this is Calder’s canvas: young adulthood, and a generation simultaneously bound to one another via social media and yet lost in a disconnected modern world. It comes, helpfully, with a glowing quote from that generation’s chronicler-in-chief, Sally Rooney, who calls Reward System “an exhilarating and beautiful book”. Read More...