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Universal sperm bank would strike at a core human freedom

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A world in which the state coordinates the conception of almost every child comes straight from the pages of dystopian science fiction. And yet that was the implication of a recent suggestion that the NHS ought to freeze the sperm of all 18-year-old males to counter the effects of the increasing age at which men become...

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Low aspirations don't explain why white working-class children fall behind

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The lower educational achievement of white working-class pupils has long been recognised as a key challenge for schools. But in recent years, the yardstick against which their under-performance has been measured has changed – from middle-class pupils to...

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