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What happened when I started a feminist society at school

guardian.co.uk — I am 17 years old and I am a feminist. I believe in gender equality, and am under no illusion about how far we are from achieving it. Identifying as a feminist has become particularly important to me since a school trip I took to Cambridge last year.
RT @NancyDurrant: Very good, if singularly depressing piece by Jinan Younis about what hap when she started a feminist soc at school. http:…
RT @NancyDurrant: Very good, if singularly depressing piece by Jinan Younis about what hap when she started a feminist soc at school. http:…
RT @RosamundUrwin: This is hugely upsetting. "What happened when I started a feminist society at school" guardian.co.uk/education/mort…
Very good, if singularly depressing piece by Jinan Younis about what hap when she started a feminist soc at school. gu.com/p/3gjaq/tw
What a hero. 17 year old starts feminist society at school. Despite shocking / depressing peer abuse. guardian.co.uk/education/mort…
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Digital news is finally starting to pay

guardian.co.uk — Newspaper publishers beleaguered by digital developments for the past decade are starting to believe that business models to support digital journalism have emerged. Their increasing optimism is driven by a number of factors: the growing revenue from paywalls and digital apps for tablets and smartphones, as well as a more favourable shift in public attitudes towards paying for online news.
Good point RT @StKonrath: (Needs more than asking readers to pay) Digital news finally starting to pay guardian.co.uk/media/media-bl…
Digital news is finally starting to pay gu.com/p/3gy79/tw via @guardian - very interesting for future of newspapers
#Digital business models starting to produce results, new research finds guardian.co.uk/media/media-bl… Full report goo.gl/AGZQk
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French woman accused of disguising herself as daughter to sit exam

guardian.co.uk — With the Baccalauréat exam season under way in France amid endless media reports on stress, cheating and unbearable pressure, one mother who seemingly wanted to ensure the best result for her child has been questioned by police after disguising herself as her daughter in order to sit an English exam in her place.
French woman accused of disguising herself as daughter to sit exam (She must've taken a leaf out of Nepali students) guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun…
RT @frasermatthew: 52-year-old French woman accused of disguising herself as her teenage daughter to sit English exam at #Paris school http…
Mother took exam for daughter; authorities let her take test for 2 hours before hauling her out. m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/jun… via @frasermatthew

Why does Michael Gove not want me in schools?

guardian.co.uk — I receive an awful lot of letters from Michael Gove these days. Asking me this. Demanding that. Wanting a clarification on the other. If I were him, I would focus on the day job. There is a looming crisis in primary school places. Junior apprenticeship numbers are collapsing.
RT @janemerrick23: "When my son has a fever, I give him Calpol. This doesn't make me a doctor." @TristramHuntMP amusing on Michael Gove htt…
RT @janemerrick23: "When my son has a fever, I give him Calpol. This doesn't make me a doctor." @TristramHuntMP amusing on Michael Gove htt…
"When my son has a fever, I give him Calpol. This doesn't make me a doctor." @TristramHuntMP amusing on Michael Gove m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…

Our banks are not merely out of control. They're beyond control

guardian.co.uk — Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become.
RT @RenegadeEcon: Excellent piece: Our banks are not merely out of control. They're beyond control | Joris Luyendijk gu.com/p/3gyjt/tw
Financial institutions "that are too big to fail are too big to exist." From the @Guardian: guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…
Banks r not merely out of control.They're beyond control. Joris Luyendijk on Y the system's wrong & no one can fix it gu.com/p/3gyjt/tw
Joris Luyendijk sums up 2 yrs getting to know finance: banks are not out of control but "beyond control" m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…
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Parliamentary arts debate: is this bland point-scoring as good as it gets?

guardian.co.uk — If nothing else, it was important because it actually happened: yesterday saw the first debate in the House of Commons on arts and culture in over five years, brought in opposition time by the shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman. The reality, though, fell desperately short of expectation.
RT @chiggi: #artsdebate - do share verdicts of >140 chrs over at my blog: “Is this bland point scoring as good as it gets?” http://t.co/8Bs…
#artsdebate - do share verdicts of >140 chrs over at my blog: “Is this bland point scoring as good as it gets?” guardian.co.uk/culture/charlo…
RT @guardianculture: Parliamentary arts debate: is this bland point-scoring as good as it gets? gu.com/p/3gyqb/tw @chiggi
New article: Parliamentary arts debate: is this bland point-scoring as good as it gets? gu.com/p/3gyqb/tf

Daily Mail to pay £125,000 libel damages over TV psychic 'scam' claim

guardian.co.uk — The Daily Mail has apologised and agreed to pay £125,000 in libel damages to a TV psychic it falsely accused of using a hidden earpiece to scam a theatre audience. Sally Morgan, who has appeared on TV and on stage as a psychic, complained that the article in September 2011 meant she had "deliberately and dishonestly" tricked her audience in Dublin.
Jaw-dropping chutzpah. “@RichardWiseman: Daily Mail pay £125,000 in libel damages to Sally Morgan guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun…
Can you libel a TV psychic? Apparently so! Daily Mail to pay out £125,000 to Sally Morgan bit.ly/13UQOi8
More coming RT @mediaguardian: Daily Mail to pay £125,000 libel damages over TV psychic 'scam' claim gu.com/p/3gyq3

Young people more willing to pay for digital news, report finds

guardian.co.uk — Young people are more willing to pay for online news than any other age group, according to a major study of internet habits. The survey of 11,000 internet users in nine countries including the UK found that 25- to 34-year-olds are twice as likely to part with their cash for digital news than older readers.
Young people more willing to pay for digital news, report finds gu.com/p/3gyz6/tw via @guardian
Yessssss! RT @mediaguardian Young people more willing to pay for digital news, report finds gu.com/p/3gyz6/tf

Owen Paterson urges public to back GM crops: Politics live blog

guardian.co.uk — It's not the most important story of the day, but it's easily the most fun - the Sun's account of what happened when George Osborne addressed the G8. MUSIC fan Barack Obama kept getting George Osborne's name wrong after mixing him up with one of his favourite soul stars - Jeffrey Osborne.
RT @AndrewSparrow: Yvette Cooper says Clegg's Nigella comment shows "how little he understands violence against women" - http://t.co/BzF5RU…
Yvette Cooper says Clegg's Nigella comment shows "how little he understands violence against women" - guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/…
MPs condemn Nick Clegg over his Nigella Lawson/Charles Saatchi "uncertain about intervening" comments - guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/…
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Thomas Heatherwick accused of plagiarism over Olympic cauldron

guardian.co.uk — As the polished copper petals of Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron rose up to form a striking flaming dandelion last July, gasps of awe and wonder echoed around the world at the structure's startling originality. In the offices of the New York design studio Atopia, however, there were gasps of a different kind.
How Olympic cauldron fanned flames of fury at American design studio gu.com/p/3gyjj/tw via @guardian
Great story by @ollywainwright: How Olympic cauldron fanned flames of fury at American design studio gu.com/p/3gyjj/tw via @guardian
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Dolce and Gabbana convicted of tax evasion

guardian.co.uk — The fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been convicted of tax evasion after being found guilty of failing to declare €1bn (£850m) in income. A court in Milan sentenced them both to one year and eight months in jail.

Scotland must do more to tackle poverty, warns Oxfam

guardian.co.uk — Oxfam has urged ministers to appoint an official poverty tsar who would champion efforts to combat low wages, poor life expectancy and endemic deprivation in some of Scotland's poorest neighbourhoods. The charity has accused ministers in successive Scottish and UK governments of failing to combat poverty effectively by putting wealth-creation, consumption and economic growth ahead of social equality.
RT @GdnScotland: Scotland must do more to tackle poverty and combat corporate greed warns @OxfamScotland gu.com/p/3gyyg/tw via @severi…
.@OxfamScotland report accuses ministers of putting wealth & GDP ahead of equality and tackling poverty gu.com/p/3gyyg/tw @GdnScotland
#Scotland must do more to tackle #poverty, warns Oxfam gu.com/p/3gyyg/tw << one of the west's most unequal societies, apparently
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Decline and fall: how American society unravelled

guardian.co.uk — In or around 1978, America's character changed. For almost half a century, the United States had been a relatively egalitarian, secure, middle-class democracy, with structures in place that supported the aspirations of ordinary people. You might call it the period of the Roosevelt Republic.

Goodbye, James Gandolfini

guardian.co.uk — James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano. Photograph: Craig Blankenhorn/AP In cinema and on stage, James Gandolfini was testament to the powers of the Actors Studio and of the Italian-American performance tradition. On Broadway and in a laudable string of film credits that included Get Shorty and True Romance, the man breathed life into unglamorous men the way only a true character actor can.

Paris starts campaign to be nicer to tourists

guardian.co.uk — One of the world's most visited cities but also famous for its rudeness, Paris has embarked on a campaign to improve its reputation and better cater to the needs of tourists.
The British like to be called by 1st names, while Italians shd be shaken by the hand & Americans reassured on prices. guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun…
Paris starts campaign to be not so rude to tourists. You're happy now? gu.com/p/3gyhy/tw via @guardian
Sacre bleu: Paris starts campaign to be nicer to tourists bit.ly/12cx317 "Americans should be reassured on prices"
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