News about William Golding

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EMPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince William may not be able to escape the extravaganza that his father suffered during his Prince of Wales investiture in 1969. The King last week, when unveiling the formal Letters Patent, he said he would honor William by putting a coronet upon his head and a gold ring on his finger, as well as a presenting a gold rod into his hand.'

Staff at a failing mental health facility were encouraged to self-harm and visit suicide pages in the wards' 'chaotic' conditions, according to a damning independent probe. Following chemotherapy at West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough, three teenagers, Christie Harnett, 17, (left) and Emily Moore, 18, (right), took their own lives for an eight-month period before the Covid pandemic. The child and adolescent mental health wards were often described as 'chaotic and risky' to workers and patients, with inadequate staff and inadequately trained staff, as well as a lack of leadership. Young patients with complicated conditions were largely left to their own devices, skipping education lessons to lounge around and surfing harmful websites on the internet, as a result of a policy of'least restrictive activity.' The young patients were 'allowed to determine whether or not they had attended lessons and were not generally barred from bringing inappropriate high-risk and potentially lethal items into the wards,' according to the study.'

The Daily Mail's Stephen Bayley writes, 'Croatia, just two hours from London, is an exciting and transforming escape sensation.' Particularly if you visit the islands of Hvar and Dugi Otok. Pocket Atlas Of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky's surprise bestseller, established the common appeal of silence and solitude in our modern world.' A lot of magic goes into magic. ' It's been on both Hvar and Dugi Otok.'

This tragedy unfolds in three parts, each of which narrates a period in Oliver's life, the 18th century's Silbourne, his little hometown town, was going to study chemistry at Oxford. It's the ultimate setting for the suffocating English class system ('a crippling and horrific system,' Golding says), in which social status determines everything. Oliver, thwarted in love, cruelly blackmails Evie, a precocious, working-class 15-year‑old girl, into having sex - with unforeseen consequences