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#DATINGATSCHOOL
A row has broken out after the head teacher of Ruthin School in Denbighshire, Wales, said in an e-mail that any student with a boyfriend or girlfriend can “expect to find a new school in September” and “will definitely get a worse [university] reference” from him to dissuade them from having teenage relationships. @ollie_whitt said: “Pupils would like to remind the head teacher at Ruthin School that it’s really none of his business.” @Justanothr posted: “Is this not a breach of an individual’s Article 8 #ECHR rights – right to respect for private and family life? Surely a child does not give up this right when his parents decide he will board at #Ruthinschool – #Tobybelfield sounds like a truly awful headmaster.” @Willcoxjoe added: “Follow this argument from @ruthinschool’s head teacher to its logical conclusion. No relationships at university because they’ll affect your degree, No relationships once you’re working because you won’t get promoted. He hasn’t seen Idiocracy, I guess.”
#FAKENEWS
In his first papal document on the topic, the Pope said journalists must shun the “snake tactics” of fake news that serve political interests. @Nnordengren tweeted: “The Pope speaks very well on this issue, I think the thing with all this ‘fake news’ stuff is that if the views don’t line up with you, you don’t agree. Everyone labels it fake and tries to sow the seeds of division from that.” @jamesrbuk said: “Speaking as a journalist I’d say it’s not the Pope’s job to preach.” @phauser added: “From a guy who believes that bread and wine literally turn into flesh and blood.” @Albertanpatriot said: “The problem is to get journalists to tell the truth.”
#URSULAKLEGUIN
Ursula K Le Guin was both a prolific writer and an inspirational feminist icon. She died at her home in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 88. (Obituary, page 42) @Maryrobinette said: “I’m sitting in an airport crying. Ursula Le Guin. You have taken my words with you.” @alltsun_nodere tweeted: “I’m so incredibly saddened to hear about Ursula Le Guin... Her commitment to intersectionality and imagining worlds free of our paradigms was unbelievable. Sci-fi/fantasy has lost one of its greatest voices.”