The Times is free to read this weekend. Here, Louise has kindly written about my Son “Oliver” and his story. Please read and retweet because “let me die” can become “let me live” with the right level of awareness and intervention ❤️

Our consumer affairs editor Louise Eccles went undercover to expose the Royal Mail's treatment of parcels over letters: thetimes.com/uk/article/roy… 12/19

Calling all Swifties! Among the brilliant FREE content on The Times and The Sunday Times website this weekend is this by Megan Agnew on the story behind one of the biggest selling recording artists in history. Taylor Swift’s early years — by the people who knew her thetimes.co.uk/article/864022…

This piece in The Times and The Sunday Times took me on such an emotional rollercoaster. A great read.

Sir Chris Hoy talks beautifully about how he learned to accept his terminal cancer diagnosis while his wife Sarra also lives with aggressive MS. “As unnatural as it feels, this is nature’, he says in this wonderful interview by Decca Aitkenhead thetimes.com/article/09f357…

🇬🇧 Middle Classes Support VAT On Private Schools, Says Phillipson ▫Bridget Phillipson claims ‘pushy parents’ will demand more from the state sector after being priced out by rising fees ▫Louise Eccles caroline wheeler #frontpagestoday #UK The Times and The Sunday Times 🇬🇧

The Education Secretary told me that middle class parents support her policy of imposing 20% VAT on private school fees because most of them have been priced out of the independent sector and want better state options for their children. thetimes.com/article/c1e3c2…

Would you close your street to traffic once a week/month so your children could play safely with friends? I love the idea but I suspect my neighbours might not all agree! I looked into ‘play streets’, which some councils already offer, in The Sunday Times. bit.ly/40vaKMu

When something as evil as the Southport murders happens, it is too easy to focus only on the killer. Who he was and why and how he did it. Here, the families of the girls killed remind us it is Elsie, Bebe and Alice we must remember. The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.com/article/8f5e3f…

Achieving top exam results is one thing, but how happy are the children? We tried to track down the country's happiest schools using Ofsted's parent survey data. thetimes.com/uk/education/a…

Why is the proportion of male secondary school teachers at a record low? My story in The Sunday Times today. There is no paywall this weekend so it is free to read. Classroom crisis: number of male secondary teachers at record low thetimes.com/article/6d47f5…

Huge suspected fraud where students claim hundreds of millions of pounds in student loans for courses they never intended to complete — nor do they ever intend to repay the loans. Walk-in degrees, sham students and a giant university fraud scandal thetimes.com/article/2ea143…