Newspaper headlines: 'Labour revolt on migrant hotels' and 'cult priest guilty'.
A warning from the education secretary that the majority of white, working-class children are falling short in English and Maths skills is the lead in the Telegraph. Bridget Phillipson has told the paper that there has been no improvement in the number of children in this group achieving a strong GCSE pass in the two subjects since 2017. She describes this as "appalling".
People appear to find everything slightly more enjoyable if they have company while they are doing it according to a study covered in the Times. Forty thousand Americans were asked questions about their mood and whether they were "interacting" with someone while carrying out an activity in four different years between 2010 and 2021.
The paper says the researchers found with "remarkable consistency" that company was linked to better moods, even if the activity was something like reading, or just "thinking".
