Looking into Luta Pela Paz
Luta Pela Paz is no ordinary gym. Translated as “fight for peace”, it signifies a daily fight for peace. The organisation was founded in 2000 by the British University light-middleweight…
A Childhood Abused By My Grandfather
“No one wants to read in the newspapers about abuse going on in the family because it feels too much like, ‘It’s not my world! It’s not my world!’” My…
Not Wanting Children as a Twenty-Something-Year-Old
Words by Beth Brown, Features Editor Entering your twenties is a time when everything starts to feel very real. You are no longer comforted by teenagehood, and many twenty-something-year-olds start…
Literary characters with disabilities
On World Book Day 2019, authors and screenwriters came forward calling for more diversity in children’s books, so young people see representations of themselves in the books they read. Rachel…
Full Discussion with Little Green Pig
We got the chance to talk to Catherine from Brighton & Hove’s local organisation, Little Green Pig, who work with young people to unlock their imaginations and explore their creativity.…
Human Crufts: The Obsession With Celebrity Children
At the risk of sounding bitter with age (I am a ripe old twenty three years old) I have a request to make. Please, for the love of god, stop…
Protest is education not indoctrination
At the Women’s March in London it was a single child who stuck in my mind: a little boy who could have been hardly older than eight. He saw the…
The Big Debate: Should grammar schools be abolished?
Yes Should grammar schools be exterminated or expanded? EXTERMINATE! When I’m elected Prime Minister, on the biggest landslide result the nation has ever seen in the year 2040, the first…
Fighting for the rights of the world's children
It is 40 years since I arrived as a student at Sussex University in the wake of the global student revolution of 1968, in the year of Woodstock and the…