Moving house can make you healthier, happier – and greener, too

May 13, 2016 11:02 am UTC| Life

The vast majority of people in the UK still commute to work by car rather than by using public transport or cycling. Obviously this has serious consequences for the environment: cars are a major source of greenhouse gas...

Good tests make children fail – here's why

May 13, 2016 10:24 am UTC| Health Life

Many parents and teachers are critical of the Standardised Assessment Tests (SATs) that have recently been taken by primary school children. One common complaint is that they are too hard. Teachers at my sons school sent...

The Manchester terror drill – and why we must stop linking Arabic with fanatics

May 13, 2016 10:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Greater Manchester Police staged a mock attack featuring a suicide bomber late on the night of Monday May 9. It began at the Trafford Centre shopping complex when a man in black walked into the centre of the main foyer and...

Sheffield is on a quest to be the fairest city of them all – here's how it's doing

May 11, 2016 02:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Fairness has become one of the most important ideas in contemporary politics. Its a concept leveraged by both sides of the political spectrum, to attack or support decisions about who gets what, and how particularly when...

A day in the digital life of teenagers

May 09, 2016 13:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

With each generation the public consciousness conjures up a new fear for our youth: where once it was rock n roll, today the concern is that teenagers lives are dominated by digital media. The worry is that the digital...

'Good Muslims' or 'Good citizens': how Muslim women feel about integration

May 09, 2016 13:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

A great many things have been said about Muslims as UK citizens, mainly by non-Muslims. The prime minister, David Cameron, believes that if more Muslim women became proficient in English, for example, it would help beat...

How to get off the couch and into exercise

May 09, 2016 12:39 pm UTC| Health Life

Current guidelines suggest Aussie adults should accrue at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise each week. However, 60% of us fail to meet this recommendation, and around one in six arent doing any regular...