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Society

  • Keir Starmer

    Labour MP calls two-child benefit cap ‘heinous’ in latest call to scrap policy

  • Rear view of a woman walking on dirt road during sunset

    Can you prepare for a good menopause? Perhaps start by thinking of it as a ‘second spring’

    There are some things women can do to get ready. Thinking of it as a positive transition may be one of them
  • A young female junior doctor holds a board saying 'Pay restoration for doctors' on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, on a sunny July 2, 2024.

    Pay bodies to recommend 5.5% rise for teachers and NHS staff, report says

    Above inflation deal could lead to government having to find an extra £10bn in total across the public sector
  • Hali Vita and her two children posing for a photo at the door of their residential van

    ‘I feel helpless’: van dwellers stuck in tight spot on Bristol’s historic Downs

  • Teddy Sagi

    A £53m gamble: billionaire’s company claims it was tricked into buying UK online betting firm that was worth ‘nil’

  • Kerry and Charles Hine sit for a photo in front of an old house

    Up to 100,000 may have undiagnosed forms of dementia in England

  • A young man by a blue-lit bed looking out the window

    Review dismisses claims youth suicides rose after NHS curbed puberty blockers

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Interviews & opinion

  • Eva Wiseman

    We need more than trompe-l’oeil to fix our housing crisis

    Eva Wiseman
  • Weathered-looking white woman wearing pink and blue sunhat holds up bright orange piece of paper, with tents on green grass behind her.

    ‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision

  • Tony Sinclair, who formerly lived in a tent outside a hospital in central London

    ‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’: how a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britain

  • Marjolein Robertson standing in front of a wall hanging with colourful circular pattern.

    The period that almost killed me: ‘My mam was told, if you take her home, she won’t last the night’

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In mind: focus on mental health

  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week

  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • Passengers orienting themselves at Gatwick airport yesterday

    Microsoft IT outage
    NHS England warns of disruption next week as global IT outage wreaks havoc

  • Robin McKie

    Opinion
    Turn off Netflix and take the stairs: let’s aim to die healthy rather than just live longer

    Robin McKie
  • Jessie J

    Jessie J
    Singer Jessie J reveals she has been diagnosed with OCD and ADHD

    In an Instagram post, she said having a baby last year had ‘exposed’ the conditions ‘a lot more’

  • Medical research
    Scientists urge GPs to share UK patient data for research into new treatments

  • US news
    Preventable deaths and high cancer rates: women’s health in ‘perilous’ place

  • Microsoft IT outage
    Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks

Blood, sweat & tears

  • Patient receiving chemotherapy

    Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

    Lucy Gossage
    Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
  • Surgery

    I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon
  • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

    There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous
  • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

    My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous
  • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

    I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

    Catherine Pointer
  • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

    I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

    Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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Social care

  • A girl wearing a white dress and angel's wings stands in a room with supernatural light coming through cracks in the ceiling.

    Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire

  • A care home worker carries a meal to a room

    Health groups call for social care minimum wage to avert staffing crisis in England

  • A generic bedside blood-pressure check on a patient by a nurse

    The Guardian view on hospices: these special places can’t afford to be hidden

  • eviction notice on a door

    When social housing policy leaves children bereaved and homeless

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Central & local government

  • A row of pylons

    The great pylon pile-on: can councils’ opposition scupper Labour’s ‘clean power’ revolution?

  • Jo Swinson sitting behind a desk

    Jo Swinson criticises ‘duplicitous’ civil servants at Post Office inquiry

  • Two phone boxes in poor state of repair

    ‘Ugly’ phone boxes that blight UK streets should be removed, says thinktank

  • UK General Election 2024

    Message to Labour: don’t bully local parties in the next election

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Voluntary sector

  • Ampleforth College

    Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

  • A prison officer walks across an empty landing of a prison

    Labour must avoid release of high-risk offenders in prison plans, charity warns

  • A multicoloured screenprint of Kate Moss

    Top UK auction house told to stop taking buyer’s premium for charity sales

  • Oslo 19861125 Leah Levin i Oslo for å snakke om barnearbeid. Foto: Svein E. Furulund / Aftenposten / NTB scanpix Fysisk loc. 77.00

    Leah Levin obituary

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Housing

  • Dortheavej residence in Copenhagen

    Putting design first: six social housing projects from around the world

    • Desert in Namibia

      ‘People think they’ll smell but they don’t’: building homes from mushroom waste and weeds

    • Houses under construction

      Developers welcome Labour’s intention to liberalise planning regime

    • Keir Starmer, with Angela Rayner to his right an Rachel Reeves to his left, speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons

      The king’s speech sounded a bit like Labour governments of old. But only a bit

    • A person using a single-use vaping product

      Scotland and Westminster join forces on vaping, rail and renting reform

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