News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
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Peter Hitchens is right, says Joanna Gray: labelling a child as 'dyslexic' only means they give up trying to read. We think we're helping by giving them 'support' but all we've done is undermined their confidence.
The Prince of Wales has suggested that NHS staff should be given "enforced breaks" in their careers for the sake of their mental health to help prevent burnout.
A paper documenting the association between Left-wing views and poor mental health has been retracted on trumped-up grounds. One of the complaints is that the authors used "judgemental language".
Lockdowns and school closures have triggered a devastating surge in child suicides and self-harm, with hospital admissions soaring and mental health disorders skyrocketing.
Britain's working from home culture is creating a generation "used to not doing proper work" and is harming productivity and mental health, the former boss of Marks and Spencer and Asda Lord Rose has said.
Never mind smartphones: surely it was the novel that invented mental health problems, suggests Prof James Alexander, as he pays tribute to the theorist of the form, David Lodge, who died on January 1st.
Psychological therapy may be the only treatment to successfully cure lingering 'Long Covid' symptoms, landmark new research in the BMJ has suggested.
Following the tragic suicide of an Oxford student after he was shunned by friends, Clinical Psychologist Dr. Carole Sherwood asks what kind of society we have become when students live in constant fear of being cancelled.
Welcome to Pendle, where lockdown didn’t just harm work – it crushed it. With jobs down 26%, the Telegraph's Melissa Lawford explores how local efforts offer hope, but the pandemic’s scars run deep.
The U.K. Health Security Agency has launched a "climate mental health distress" project. It's absurd, says Chris Morrison. They spend taxpayer money alarming people and then they spend even more trying to soothe them.
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