Parents of Isaiah Haastrup and Zainab Abbasi, who died in 2018 and 2019, have said they want to ‘tell their story’

Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the supreme court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell their story”.

Isaiah Haastrup , aged 12 months, and Zainab Abbasi, six, were at the centre of life-support treatment disputes at the high court in London before their deaths in 2018 and 2019 respectively.

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Readers respond to George Monbiot’s piece on how economic inequality fosters resentment, exclusion and nostalgia

George Monbiot ( Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature, 13 April ) makes some very important points about the psychology of those who follow demagogues and rightwing populist leaders. But this knowledge is not new. After the horrors of the rise of the Nazis and the persecution by them of Jews and other minority groups before and during the second world war, psychologists, many of them Jewish, began to systematically study the origins of such hatred. One was Henri Tajfel , a Jew born in Poland whose family were murdered by the Nazis.

Tajfel was primarily interested in group identity, and popularised the terms in-group and out-group. Most importantly for understanding our times, Tajfel’s work helped to show that not only do we work for, and experience reward through, the in-group’s success (familiar to supporters of any football club), but, more sinisterly, we will work for, and experience reward through, the detriment of the out-group, even if that also means the in-group suffers, so long as it is to a lesser extent.

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Cllr Jonny Crawshaw outlines the financial perils of an education sector that is no longer fit for purpose

There is undoubtedly a crisis of funding hitting classrooms across England’s secondary education sector ( Half of England’s state secondaries forced to cut staff in budget squeeze, poll finds, 10 April ). It is not as simple as a lack of cash coming into schools, however (though this is a significant contributing factor).

A cursory look at the published accounts of the many multi‑academy trusts (Mats), which now control at least 80% of state secondary schools in England, shows an explosion in chief executive pay, with many new ancillary roles – chief finance officers, executive headteachers and trust performance directors – also adding to “central services” bills. Many of these roles didn’t exist a decade ago, yet they leach millions of pounds each year out of the classroom and into the bank balances of the disproportionately white, middle‑class men who fill them.

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President calls elite university a ‘joke’ and threatens to strip it of tax-exempt status as $2bn in funding frozen

Donald Trump has declared that Harvard University should no longer receive federal funds, calling the pre-eminent university in the US a “joke” that “teaches hate and stupidity”.

Harvard made headlines on Monday by becoming the first university to stand up against a series of onerous demands from the Trump administration , setting the stage for a showdown between the federal government and one of the US’s most prestigious institutions.

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Shadow justice minister claims Nicholas Prosper’s life sentence with minimum of 49 years is unduly lenient

The jail term given to a man who murdered his mother and two siblings as part of a plan to kill 30 children is to be reviewed after an intervention by an MP who claimed it was unduly lenient.

Nicholas Prosper, 19, was jailed for life last month with a minimum term of 49 years after he admitted murdering Juliana Falcon, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13.

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Creative licence which Luis Enrique has granted sets arguably the most watchable team in Europe apart

Luis Enrique had one word to describe Gianluigi Donnarumma. “Sensationnel,” the Paris Saint-Germain manager said, briefly switching into French from his native Spanish; no translation required.

Donnarumma was the difference for PSG against Aston Villa on Tuesday night, the goalkeeper making five saves in the Champions League quarter-final second leg at Villa Park, three of them, well, sensational, as his team just about got the job done, losing 3-2 on the night having been 2-0 up but advancing 5-4 on aggregate.

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Visiting delegation find ‘hostile atmosphere’ for LGBTQ+ people and say country heading in ‘wrong direction’

A delegation of EU lawmakers visiting Hungary has called on Europe’s top court to suspend a new law banning Budapest Pride, as they criticised a “very hostile atmosphere” for LGBTQ+ people in the country and urged a return to “real democracy”.

Tineke Strik, a Dutch Green politician who led a cross-party group of MEPs to investigate democratic standards in Hungary, said developments were going “rapidly in the wrong direction”.

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The party’s manifesto said it wanted to make it easier to hire and fire workers, but its leader has said he wants a ‘sensible relationship’ with unions

Reform UK’s manifesto last summer was clear: a Nigel Farage-led government would “make it easier to hire and fire” workers. Eight months on, Farage was at pains to praise trade unions, saying his party had “a good partnership” with them. So which one is it?

There are two broad answers. The first is that, as with most politicians but particularly with Farage, there is an element of saying two contradictory things at once. But also, in the era of British Steel returning to state control and Reform pursuing votes in Labour heartlands, the political landscape has changed.

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A young Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni , the heaviest invertebrate on earth, was filmed in the Atlantic Ocean

The colossal squid, the heaviest invertebrate in the world, has been filmed alive in the wild for the first time since it was identified a century ago.

Growing up to seven metres long and weighing up to half a tonne, the squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni , is the heaviest invertebrate on the planet. The individual captured on film near the South Sandwich Islands, in the south Atlantic Ocean, is a baby, at just 30cm in length.

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