Y7 English: Female Voices

Society

• Every day should be a three-day weekend [should we work less?]
• How do you make poor areas richer? [video]
• Police face backlash over coronation protests; What Britain thinks about the coronation ... [lots of articles on coronation and monarchy]
• Is ADHD on the rise? [video]
• More days off school as teachers strike again [Should teachers/nurses/doctors be paid more? Is strike action reasonable?]
• Apocalypse meow: cuddly killers under fire [Are pet cats are bad for the environment?]
• PM wages war on 'anti-maths mindset' [Is numeracy as important as literacy?]
• Major new study puts the spotlight on racism
• Why the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial is great TV [culture of celebrity]
• Tragedy in the Alps as bear kills runner [Has rewilding gone too far?]

Climate

Lots of articles on climate change, extreme weather and water shortages

Science and technology

• Britain's first three parent baby is born [Are scientists creating a moral nightmare?]
• Artificial Intelligence [Lots to debate here]
  • 'Godfather of AI' quits Google with a warning [Have we unleashed a monster?]
  • How robot artists are fooling the world [Can we believe our eyes?]
  • Stop this race to develop digital brains [How worried should we be?]
  • How will chatbots change the future? [video]
• Effect of technology on our brains
  • What does scrolling do to your brain? [video] [Should there be limits on screen time?]
  • How mobile phones have changed our brains
  • Is reading on a screen bad for you?
• Food and diet:
  • What happens when you quit sugar? [video] [Does Western society have a problem with sugar?]
  • What happens if you only eat fried food? [video]
  • Proof of the pudding: ice cream is healthy

Politics

• Shot for knocking on the wrong front door [Is America ruled by fear? Lots of issues around gun crime in the US in particular]
• Germany set to legalise cannabis by 2024 [Should other countries follow? Lots of issues here including: medicinal cannabis; licensed growing of cannabis on Guernsey; whether Guernsey has the power to change it's own laws in this area (BBC News article).]
• Survivor, 83, calls out rhetoric on migrants [Are we forgetting the lessons of the holocaust? Lots of issues here on dealing with immigration and on refugees]

Sport

• The film stars who bought a football club; Huge shake-up to future of English football [Lots to think about here with money and sponsorship in sport]
• The protestors who glue themselves to jumps [Is horse racing wrong? Or do protesters themselves endanger horses?]
• Sports make you a better person say experts [How important is competetive sport in schools?]
• The women turning cricket on its head [There are lots of articles about the rise of women's professional sport]
• The football star who said what he thinks [Article about Gary Linnekar. Is is acceptable for sports personalities to get involved in politics?]
• Flipping crazy! Are X-games to dangerous? [Are extreme sports too dangerous?]
• The teenage video gamers making millions [Are e-sports really sports?]

Culture

• Anger spreads over dark skinned Cleopatra [How important is it to cast someone based on skin colour/ (dis)ability / sexuality etc?]
• The language that took over the whole world [Is it a good or a bad thing that so many people speak English? Should we be making more effort to learn other languages?]
• Revolutionary drama shows the reality of autism [Is TV the way to a better world?]
• USA is banning books says secret insider; Growing list of banned books in US schools [Is free speech dead in America?]
• Five years old, with 1,500 images online [Should sharenting be banned?]
• Taylor Swift is 'great philosopher' says head [But should he be comparing her to great poets and philosophers of the past?]
• Five reasons to get lost in a good book [Are books more fun than video games?]
• Growing calls to ban photo enhancement [Are online photo filters making people more dissatisfied with the way they look?]

All images are from The Day