English author and academic; award-winning writer and All Souls Fellow
The Queen has announced a new initiative to gift a special edition of Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures to every year 6/P6 child this Christmas, in partnership with the National Literacy Trust. The move aims to bolster children's reading enjoyment as part of the Queen's literacy advocacy. The book, Waterstones Book of the Year 2023, will include a personal message from the Queen.
UN agencies and multiple news outlets have reported that, five years after the Taliban retook Kabul, Afghan women and girls remain formally banned from secondary and higher education, face broad curbs on employment and movement, and are losing access to health training such as midwifery, producing a deepening human-rights and public-health crisis.