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Here's A List Of 6 Books That Could Help Your Teenager Get Back Into Reading

Here's A List Of 6 Books That Could Help Your Teenager Get Back Into Reading

Books to help teens enjoy reading again. We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, HuffPost UK may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI – prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication. Daily reading and enjoyment of reading are at a more-than-20-year low among young people, according to new research. The National Literacy Trust (NLT) surveyed over 80,000 young people aged 11 to 16 years old and found just one in five (18.8% of) boys aged 14 to 16 report enjoying reading, compared to 37.7% of girls. The same survey, shared with the Guardian , found only 9.8% of boys between the ages of 14 and 16 read every day, compared to 17.6% of girls. If these stats resonate and you’re hoping to gently steer your teen towards page-turners once more; these thrilling, funny, and ultra-engaging reads might just tempt them. Related... Parents Will Be Told If Teens Search Suicide Or Self-Harm Content On Instagram Attention Parents, Teens Want To Know The Answers To 5 Common Sex Questions Teens Are Increasingly Anxious And Therapists Have A Lot To Say About It

Most senior council officers in England say building work hit by delays

Most senior council officers in England say building work hit by delays

Funding uncertainty is main concern, despite Labour’s pledge to revitalise construction, survey shows Almost two-thirds of senior council officers have said they are seeing construction projects delayed, despite the key role of local authorities in creating the wave of new housing and infrastructure promised by Labour. Before Rachel Reeves’s spring forecast on Tuesday , a survey of senior council officers showed that 40% do not think the local authority they work for is well placed to follow through on its construction plans. Continue reading...

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz

Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon Over the past year, more than two dozen countries around the world have proposed bans on social media use for vast swathes of their public. These laws, often proposed under the guise of “child safety”, are ushering in an era of mass surveillance and widespread censorship, contributing to what scholars have called a “global free speech recession”. Last year, Australia became the first country to ban anyone under the age of 16 from accessing social media. The move emboldened other countries around the world to quickly follow suit. Germany’s ruling party announced it was backing a social media ban . The French president, Emmanuel Macron, called for a ban on social media for under-15s . In the UK, Keir Starmer has sought to enact sweeping social media bans . Greece, the Philippines , Indonesia , Malaysia , Singapore and Japan have also pursued similar online identity verification laws. Taylor Lorenz is a technology journalist who writes the newsletter User Mag and is the author of the bestselling book Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet Continue reading...

Ping Coombes’ recipe for baked honey and soy chicken rice

Ping Coombes’ recipe for baked honey and soy chicken rice

A wholesome, one-pot chicken-and-rice dish that’s rammed with flavour thanks to a zingy marinade Welcome to your new favourite one-pot rice dish! I have been looking at ways to introduce more fibre to my rice dishes, to make them more balanced, and what I’ve ended up with is a recipe that has extra flavour, texture and fibre from the lentils and sweetcorn. Serve with a vibrant, zingy green salad topped with toasted sesame seeds. This recipe is an edited extract from Rice: Make Rice the Heart of Your Table with Recipes from Malaysia and Beyond, by Ping Coombes, published by Murdoch Books at £26. To order a copy for 23.40, go to guardianbookshop.com . Delivery charges may apply Continue reading...

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile In order to watch the Oscar-nominated documentary in which many of them have starring roles, pupils at Karabash School No 1 have had to source bootlegged copies, viewing the film in private, on their phones or their laptops. Last week’s Bafta best documentary win for Mr Nobody Against Putin has been studiously ignored by Russian state media, and the prize the film won at Sundance last year was also met with silence. Staff at the school and government officials in the Kremlin seem united in their desire to pretend that they know nothing about the film. Continue reading...