Students often face a formidable challenge to strike a delicate balance between achieving academic excellence and maintaining physical and mental health in a fiercely competitive environment. This balance becomes particularly vital during exam periods when students face academic pressure and performance anxiety, deeply impacting their mental healthand overall well-being.… Read the rest

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Nathalie Tocci

s Donald Trump romps to the Republican nomination for the next presidential race, there is justified anxiety among the US’s European allies about his return to the White House.… Read the rest

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Simon Tisdall

emocrats fear Joe Biden is sleepwalking to disaster in a November rematch with Donald Trump. Tories level similar criticism at dozy Rishi Sunak as Labour dreams of an autumn landslide.… Read the rest

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A little imagination and confidence in the kitchen can turn remnants into treasures – just try my ‘dregs of the peanut butter’ salad dressing

“Leftover roast potatoes? There’s no such thing!” exclaimed people on social media when I shared a suggestion for using up surplus spuds.… Read the rest

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Ministers are spending £290m of taxpayers’ money on a scheme that is yet to deliver. It’s our job as public servants to point out flaws in their plans

It was not always inevitable that a policy going badly wrong would lead to blame falling on the civil service.… Read the rest

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Israel was already deeply rightwing. But after this horror, even hardcore leftwingers, full of rage, will slide towards the right

Before Gal Navon’s coffin was wheeled in, two family members shrieked in anguish and nearly fainted. His cousin marshalled the most eloquent adjectives in the Hebrew language to describe him, but added that: “All possible words can only detract from the truth of who you really were.”… Read the rest

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By reneging on the Black Sea grain deal, Russia has driven up global prices. By standing together we can resurrect it

• Josep Borrell is the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy

On 17 July, nearly one year after the agreement was signed in Istanbul, Russia decided not to renew the Black Sea grain initiative (BSGI) that allows Ukraine to continue exporting agricultural goods to global markets during the war.… Read the rest

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Polly Curtis

The YouTube clip I return to most often is David Bowie being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight in 1999. Bowie is talking about what the internet might do: “I don’t think we’ve even seen the tip of the iceberg.… Read the rest

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Nato and the EU are the twin pillars of European security, but Britain now has to pretend there is only one

Nato must protect Ukraine from Russian aggression, and also Ukraine cannot join Nato while it is at war with Russia.… Read the rest

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