Schools digest: Games vs movies, Hong Kong pets, Climate champions

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Five things to read

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Why gaming is the new Big Tech battleground
Microsoft’s $75bn purchase of Activision could trigger an overhaul of the industry

Departing Hong Kong residents fly their pets out of city on private jets
Owners pay up to $26,000 for chartered flights as Covid rules limit commercial airline services

How the UK high street was hit by the pandemic: look up your area Although ‘levelling up’ focuses on the north and Midlands, the worst affected areas have been elsewhere. Try the FT’s postcode tool

America is overdosing on the apocalypse
There are grounds to worry about the quality of US democracy but fanatics are a minority

We are all complicit in climate change — so we should all pay to fix it
Cognitive dissonance, carbon pricing and what a sustainable economy would look like

Teacher resources

We welcome additional teachers’ recommendations and questions: please email us at schools@ft.com with your suggestions.

IB DP Theory of knowledge: Michael Dunn picks for Human sciences: Graphics of the year — making sense of 2021. Read all our Theory of Knowledge picks here

Geography: Alasdair Monteith picks for Disease dilemmas: Antibiotic resistance kills over 1m people a year, says study. Read all our Geography picks here

Politics: Graham Goodlad picks for Prime Minister and Cabinet: Cabinet opposition forced climbdown on ending BBC licence fee Read all our Politics picks here

Economics: Gavin Clarke picks for Inflation: The fight over measuring UK inflation. Read all our Economics picks here 

Business: Peter McGinn picks for Marketing: The great Japanese toaster problem. Read all our Business picks here

IB DP History: Read all our History picks here

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Hard truths about the gender pay gap

Student picks

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One to watch

Business schools switch focus to people, purpose and planet

One to hear

Podcast: The hole Johnson digs for himself gets bigger