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Ban social media and reform education to tackle scandal of young people not in work or study, says Peter HymanSchools have become a “pipeline” to worklessness for a large cohort of young people in the UK, according to an influential former Labour adviser who has...
Wiggy stardust! The mind-blowing hair artist who astonished Rihanna and Cate Blanchett
Who says hair can’t be art? We meet Taiba Akhuetie, who uses flowing human and synthetic locks to take brollies, tables, chairs, lampshades, handbags and more into a wild and wavy new dimensionTaiba Akhuetie’s art is uncomfortable to look at. This is mostly because...
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed herIn almost 40 years, Mako Nishimura never lost a fight. She told me this as if it were as obvious as night following day....
How often should you go to the toilet? How can you get the better of wind? Experts’ tips for a healthier gut
The more we learn about the gut, the more we realise how central it is to health. Here are 16 ways to look after it, from making sure we get enough fibre to not taking phones to the loo“Our gut is a complex machine,” says Dr Ajay Verma, a consultant gastroenterologist...