Alice Thomson

Pessimistic young people cry out for policies that will give them a future, but which if any politicians are listening?

With fans such as Monty Don, Holding, 32, is the new darling of garden design. He talks about his Chelsea show garden for the Eden Project

Birthrates will continue to decline if young adults persist in preferring social media to the joy of physical interaction

Cutting VAT on theme parks and meals out confirms that Labour’s all about easy gratification rather than hard truths

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