Self ID plan ‘will hit rape convictions’ Allowing the crimes of rapists who are biologically male to be attributed to women will do nothing to improve Scotland’s conviction rate for serious sexual assaults, Holyrood has been warned. #SayNoToSelfID #No2SelfID #WomenWontWheesht #Trans #Holyrood #Scotland #TheSundayTimes #SundayTimes https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/self-id-plan-will-hit-rape-convictions-3v8tlnjxj

Skye McAlpine’s Italian-inspired Christmas dinner menu The simple-to-make dishes include pomegranate turkey, cheese straws, and panettone and pancetta stuffing. Pomegranate turkey A pomegranate molasses glaze turns the turkey a seductive golden color and gives a stickiness and tart flavor that is almost irresistible. My one tip: it is well worth investing in a meat thermometer it makes it so much easier to gauge when the bird is done. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F464c8b7c-51e9-11ec-9ca1-1eec44899057.jpg?crop=8688%2C4887%2C0%2C453&resize=1200

Best comprehensive schools in the UK 2022 Find the highest-achieving comps and why one really stands out. The vast majority of children in England are educated in the state sector at a state secondary school, almost 3.5 million at the latest count, and most of them attend a non-selective comprehensive school or academy. This year’s Parent Power rankings, based on three years of pre-pandemic performance, identify the schools with consistently high performance at A-level and GCSE public examinations where those children stand the best chance of achieving well. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F02697a5e-52d0-11ec-aa56-12c42b496f23.jpg?crop=5075%2C2855%2C1426%2C70&resize=1200

The wooden shack where he lived with his wife and four children was a relic. Rats ran under the floorboards, there were no window screens to keep out the mosquitos and birds flew into the attic. But there are similar wooden structures in various states of disrepair all over the vast expanses of the Mississippi Delta, one of America’s most fertile and poorest regions. It was still home. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fd84c7ab0-4ebe-11ec-9043-2aa4c0c21cd8.jpg?crop=2250%2C1500%2C0%2C0&resize=1022