Noor Qurashi

Supermarket staff in London are now serving customers from inside glass and metal cages. The unveiling of such desperate security measures, including at a Sainsbury’s store in Battersea, should shock us. Yet in Britain, we've become so accustomed to shoplifting and crime on our streets that its introduction generates barely a murmur. Our supermarkets and shops have morphed from places where customers can be trusted, to environments where they are watched like hawks and treated with suspicion Sainsbury’s says the crackdown has been implemented to ‘protect’ staff serving vape bars, tobacco and alcohol to customers. It's hard to blame the supermarket for its logic.

Exams at the University of Oxford are tough, but there is one test that students nearly always pass with flying colours: 98 per cent of those who took part in an in-house university-funded assessment centre to screen for learning difficulties, including ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), were told they may have a condition. The screening process involved answering questions like: 'Would you describe yourself as a well-organised person?' and 'Do you tend to be on time to appointments?’. Students who met the criteria were then granted up to 25 per cent extra time in exams. If I’d gone through the screening for ADHD, that extra time in exams would have been helpful That so many Oxford students make the cut doesn't surprise me.