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Ways the web has changed the world - Telegraph
Our list of things killed by the internet provoked indignation and sparked nostalgia. Matthew Moore looks at some of the reactions.
How sons' reign of terror carried on after split from abusive family - Crime, UK - The Independent
On the quiet council estate in Doncaster, the abandoned car and broken fridge in the front garden give away the location of the area's most troublesome family.
They are immediate indicators of the deprived and broken-home background of the two boys who carried out the brutal attacks. It was the home they had lived in for eight years before moving, at the behest of social services, to live with a foster family in Edlington, on the other side of the town, just three weeks before the attack.
E Jane Dickson: We can't always blame it on the system - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
Who broke Britain? Nobody knows. Apparently it just came apart in our hands. We have our suspicions, of course, and this week, as appalled attention is focused on events in Edlington, where children were lured into a ravine and tortured horribly by other children, the usual suspects are lined up. Unfit parents. Inadequate care services. A violent, media-fuelled subculture. Each will be hauled in for its moment under the interrogation spotlight. And when none of the charges can be made to stick, we'll dump the ghastly, unresolved mess at the door of "the system".
English-speaking pupils are a minority in inner-city London primary schools | Mail Online
Children who speak English as their first language are now a minority in inner-city London primary schools, official figures showed yesterday.
Youngsters with a different mother tongue form a majority in primaries in 13 out of 33 London boroughs and in nearby Slough.
In inner London, 54 per cent of primary pupils and 48.5 per cent in secondary institutions do not speak English as their first language. This amounts to an astonishing 159,340 children.
Across the country, English is a foreign language to more than one in seven primary youngsters - almost half a million.
Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliathr
David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time. The political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft recently looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5 per cent of the cases. That is a remarkable fact. Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten times as powerful—in terms of armed might and population—as its opponent, and even in those lopsided contests the underdog won almost a third of the time.
Chris Paling on time spent on a ward with alcoholics | Society | The Guardian
He'd heard the debates about the cost of alcohol abuse to the NHS, but only when novelist Chris Paling found himself on a ward with long-term alcoholics did he really grasp the prognosis
Why the courts are at breaking point - Times Online
The Crown Court in England and Wales is at "breaking point" after a 5 per cent rise in cases to 136,000 a year, an independent watchdog has found.
As a result there are delays of several months in the hearing of serious criminal trials and the congestion is so bad that the Courts Service, the agency in charge, is spending millions of pounds converting magistrates' courts to tackle the backlog.
Meanwhile, only 70 per cent of cases last year were committed for trial within 16 weeks of coming before the magistrates and the Courts Service missed its target of dealing with 78 per cent of cases within 26 weeks. Delays are worst in London and the South East.
Assisted suicide and the limits of individualism | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
While suicide can be analysed as the act of an autonomous individual, assisted suicide cannot
Why must we indulge Doreen Lawrence?
We all sympathise with Doreen Lawrence, mother of the murdered black teenager Stephen. But does that mean we should kowtow to her views on everything from policing to politics to race relations? In the 10 years since the publication of the Macpherson report on the botched police investigation of Stephen's murder, Doreen has cast an extraordinary spell over British politics The liberal elite has promoted her to the position of a modern-day aristocrat, who sits above the political realm, passing judgement on how the police are performing or on who is fit to stand for public office.
Johann Hari: Crime is going to rise - unless we get liberal
Michael Spurr, the operational head of the Prison Service, admits that 10 per cent of the prison population is "seriously mentally ill". Almost everyone in the field considers this a serious underestimate.
The Perfect Family Is a Myth
There's something "right" about a nuclear family, or so we think.
Family, we're taught by culture and religion, "should" be composed of a mother, father and at least two kids, preferably one of each sex.
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