Alice Thomson

Patrick Radden Keefe’s book London Falling has become a huge bestseller — the true story of 19-year-old Zac Brettler, who got involved with a criminal underworld before jumping to his death in 2019. For the first time, his parents talk to Alice Thomson

Many universities need to improve but continually talking them down is misguided. We all benefit from a clever country

For 12 years, since she opened her non-selective school in London, Katharine Birbalsingh’s pupils have attained the highest grades. Yet the so-called strictest headmistress in Britain claims that middle-class parents still reject her teaching methods

Schools, parents and youth clubs have found that positive alternatives to social media improve the lives of teenagers

The children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce tells Alice Thomson that he has seen a crisis only books can fix

Labour hopes Burnham can see off Farage but it’s Badenoch across the dispatch box who will be his real problem

Grim up north? Parts of Devon and Cornwall have lower life expectancy, more child poverty and less state help

Regenerative methods, which produce nutritious crops, could wean us off ultra-processed foods, which do so much harm

MPs have enough to worry about without women snitching on colleagues who may — or may not — have behaved badly

New PM’s desire is commendable but it means tackling housing, prison and immigration problems in one swoop