Kristina Murkett

Kristina Murkett is a freelance writer and English teacher.

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Why aren’t young people working? A new report has found that youth worklessness has hit a 10-year high

Kristina Murkett

15 Nov 2024

Why did Huw Edwards avoid jail? Sentences for child sex offenders are far too lenient

Kristina Murkett

16 Sep 2024

We still live in Jeremy Kyle’s Britain The cruel spectacle of reality TV has given way to online shaming

Kristina Murkett

07 Sep 2024

What’s behind the rise in youth anxiety? More than 500 children a day are being referred to NHS mental health services

Kristina Murkett

28 Aug 2024

GCSE exam nerves are being pathologised Stress is a normal part of the education process

Kristina Murkett

22 Aug 2024

Team GB rugby’s body confidence advert sexualises women A new marketing campaign is undermining its own message

Kristina Murkett

03 Jul 2024

Body-positive Gen Z undergoes record cosmetic surgeries Young people are trapped in an impossible paradox

Kristina Murkett

29 Jun 2024

Gen Z has fallen out of love with dating apps New research shows that Zoomers now prefer in-person interactions

Kristina Murkett

14 Jun 2024

In defence of OnlyFans Ofcom's investigation into the subscription service is misguided

Kristina Murkett

04 May 2024

Bumble heralds end of honeymoon period for dating apps Users are turning away from the depressing reality of online romance

Kristina Murkett

02 May 2024

Empowerment mantras drive women to black-market Botox Female beauty standards are being dangerously skewed by the internet

Kristina Murkett

24 Apr 2024

Antidepressant prescriptions soar among UK children Nearly half a million are being handed out each year

Kristina Murkett

02 Apr 2024

The Body Shop goes bust: Gen Z sours on beauty giant The high-street retailer has fallen victim to the TikTokification of the industry

Kristina Murkett

14 Feb 2024

Why was Calvin Klein’s FKA twigs ad banned? The ASA's decision reeks of double standards

Kristina Murkett

10 Jan 2024

Rimmel: the latest brand to prey on children’s insecurities The company's back-to-school advert has been banned

Kristina Murkett

20 Dec 2023

Rishi Sunak’s social media ban is unworkable The PM's proposal ignores the damage caused by the algorithm

Kristina Murkett

15 Dec 2023

Could this be the end of Pornhub? The porn site's parent company is facing a federal investigation in the US

Kristina Murkett

14 Nov 2023

Predators are exploiting AI for child abuse images Paedophiles are harnessing the technology to create horrific material

Kristina Murkett

26 Oct 2023

AI teachers are coming to a school near you Cottesmore School recently appointed a robot principal

Kristina Murkett

16 Oct 2023

More US states are suing TikTok over child threat Utah is the latest to take on the Chinese-owned app

Kristina Murkett

12 Oct 2023

Google Pixel 8’s new editing feature is dystopian The Magic Editor tool allows users to change people's faces and expressions

Kristina Murkett

27 Sep 2023

Why do so many teenage girls feel unsafe? A new survey found that nearly half are afraid to walk the streets alone

Kristina Murkett

21 Sep 2023

Ditching GCSEs may divide state and private schools further Many schools want to innovate, but cannot afford to risk it

Kristina Murkett

14 Sep 2023

The UK is becoming an outlier on pornography Britain's attitude to regulation isn't laissez-faire — it's non-existent

Kristina Murkett

09 Aug 2023

Why are so many young people getting Botox? More and more twenty-somethings are opting for ‘prejuventation’ treatments

Kristina Murkett

25 Jul 2023

TikTok’s weird new trend: humans pretending to be robots Creators have tapped into a market for 'non-playable characters'

Kristina Murkett

14 Jul 2023

Jonah Hill has become a victim of his own therapy The actor cloaked coercive demands to his ex with the language of self-care

Kristina Murkett

10 Jul 2023

True crime obsessives won’t leave Nicola Bulley alone TikTok sleuths are part of an unhealthy trend

Kristina Murkett

27 Jun 2023

Paid period leave doesn’t help women MPs are wrong to think the idea is progressive

Kristina Murkett

13 Jun 2023

Why is Holly Willoughby trying to be my therapist? The host turned This Morning into a sermon

Kristina Murkett

06 Jun 2023

Welcome to the lucrative world of AI girlfriends An online influencer is capitalising on modern loneliness

Kristina Murkett

12 May 2023

Why aren’t Britain’s students coming back to school? A teenage mental health crisis is being ignored

Kristina Murkett

21 Apr 2023

Meet Daniel Kebede, the new far-Left head of the NEU The UK's largest teaching union is being taken over by an extreme ideologue

Kristina Murkett

07 Apr 2023

Azadeh Moshiri exposes the flaws of diversity schemes A superficial focus on race ignores a more important element: class

Kristina Murkett

13 Dec 2022

Balenciaga is sexualising children The label has apologised for photographing young girls in BDSM outfits

Kristina Murkett

23 Nov 2022

Elon Musk is not a national security threat — TikTok is Joe Biden is focusing on the wrong social media giant

Kristina Murkett

11 Nov 2022

TikTok is turning into OnlyFans The app is profiting from children's exposure to sexualised content

Kristina Murkett

19 Oct 2022

Schools are too obsessed with mental health Provisions like emotional check-ins and take-a-break corners won't help students

Kristina Murkett

01 Sep 2022

Students don’t need protecting from ‘challenging’ books Withdrawing supposedly harmful content helps no one

Kristina Murkett

10 Aug 2022

Where is the outrage over Telford? Once again, fear of racism is leading to a muted response

Kristina Murkett

14 Jul 2022

Is Big Tech exploiting Roe v Wade? Misinformation on both sides is running rife

Kristina Murkett

30 Jun 2022

The medieval trial of Amber Heard Rumour and gossip have returned to the courtroom

Kristina Murkett

15 Jun 2022

How TikTok glamourises mental health disorders Self-proclaimed ‘mental health advocates’ have become dangerously influential

Kristina Murkett

04 Apr 2022

International Women’s Day: contrived, commercialised and cynical Companies have outdone themselves

Kristina Murkett

08 Mar 2022

Parents are right to be terrified of the metaverse The platform is already being used by perverts and sexual predators

Kristina Murkett

24 Feb 2022

Another effect of lockdown: childhood obesity New data shows a major uptick in severely obese children

Kristina Murkett

15 Feb 2022

Want to improve cancer outcomes? Bring back in-person GPs visits Sajid Javid's big 10 year plan should start with the basics

Kristina Murkett

04 Feb 2022

The UK mops up students from Zero Covid countries The pandemic has increased, not decreased, the number of foreign applications

Kristina Murkett

26 Jan 2022

Anxiety: the hidden cause behind school absences Lockdown has had a detrimental impact on students' mental wellbeing

Kristina Murkett

21 Jan 2022

Online child sexual abuse images triple during lockdown A new report makes for grim reading

Kristina Murkett

13 Jan 2022

The trouble with Nadhim Zahawi’s ex-teacher army The Education Secretary's big idea sounds better than it is

Kristina Murkett

21 Dec 2021

Get ready for exams to be cancelled… again The return of teacher-assessed grades now looks inevitable

Kristina Murkett

14 Dec 2021

Our grammar school system is broken Regional inequalities are hindering social mobility

Kristina Murkett

08 Dec 2021

What will masks in schools actually achieve? The lack of logic behind the Government's new Covid guidance is infuriating

Kristina Murkett

30 Nov 2021

Male teachers labelled ‘paedos’ on TikTok The online platform has been a breeding ground for male abuse by students

Kristina Murkett

23 Nov 2021

What Durham University doesn’t understand about sex work The student union can't make an inherently dangerous industry 'more safe'

Kristina Murkett

15 Nov 2021

Universities — not the Government — should cover tuition fee losses A new report argues that they should bear the cost

Kristina Murkett

09 Nov 2021

Banning ‘complex language’ from exams won’t help my students The latest round of dumbing down exams is cynical and depressing

Kristina Murkett

03 Nov 2021

University anti-spike boycotts put the onus on women These campaigns might raise awareness, but they are still only symbolic

Kristina Murkett

20 Oct 2021

Women don’t need ‘fertility seminars’ Dystopian warnings about declining egg quality help no one

Kristina Murkett

13 Oct 2021

St Andrews reverts to 16th Century Calvinism Instead of original sin, students now have to acknowledge 'personal guilt'

Kristina Murkett

04 Oct 2021

Penalising private schools will help no one Labour's latest policy announcement will hurt the very children it aims to help

Kristina Murkett

28 Sep 2021

TikTok’s voyeuristic probe into Gabby Petito’s disappearance Social media sleuths may be hindering the case more than helping

Kristina Murkett

22 Sep 2021

KPMG enters the diversity minefield The firm wants more working class staff, but can't define who they are

Kristina Murkett

13 Sep 2021

Michael K. Williams was an antidote to today’s identity politics His portrayal of Omar Little in The Wire defied stereotypes

Kristina Murkett

07 Sep 2021

TikTok’s bizarre new craze: reporting the news The app is leading journalism in a strange new direction

Kristina Murkett

19 Aug 2021

It’s time to talk about Covid vaccines and periods Women have reported changes to their menstrual cycle after being jabbed

Kristina Murkett

20 Jul 2021

The UK-Australia trade deal is a disaster for animal rights The Government is breaking its manifesto promise about protecting animal welfare

Kristina Murkett

17 Jun 2021

Abolishing grammar schools created today’s poshocracy The main beneficiaries were private schools

Kristina Murkett

10 Jun 2021

The University of Essex turns on Stonewall The group's misrepresentation of the law is a cautionary tale

Kristina Murkett

20 May 2021

Now women’s literature is cancelled Changes to the exam syllabus in the name of 'inclusivity' are damaging to women

Kristina Murkett

07 May 2021

OnlyFans is an experiment in mass grooming The service harnesses the language of sexual liberation to exploit its users

Kristina Murkett

23 Apr 2021

A public health campaign based on a pussy pun — really? MyGP's new campaign has got people talking for all the wrong reasons

Kristina Murkett

29 Jan 2021

Remote learning? 1.8m children don’t have a laptop Digital poverty is bleaker than ever, and the government still has no answer

Kristina Murkett

08 Jan 2021