MetroUK: Immediately after news broke of the Manchester synagogue attack on Thursday – during which two Jewish people were killed and three were seriously injured – I began checking the comments under posts about the story.

As Christmas is often exclusively about family, for those without that like me, it can feel like a day of loneliness magnified.

It’s not my name and I’m fed up that, even as adults, we’re still normalising this behaviour

Imagination might be key to fiction, but during a time of reckoning in regards to race, how much longer will literature remain out there alone, when other forms of entertainment have moved on?

Local Catalans believe that Madrid’s behaviour towards Catalonia have left Spain’s richest region with no choice but to declare independence.