The pressures of poverty, insecurity and psychological distress may be physically reshaping people’s hearts years before they develop any symptoms, according to a major new study. Researchers led by the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London analysed…
Around 20,000 disclosures of domestic abuse are made to maternity services in England each year, according to an analysis which exposes both the scale of the violence taking place behind closed doors and the pressure placed on NHS workers expected…
More than 1.1 million low-income families in privately rented homes face a growing struggle to cover their rent after Local Housing Allowance was frozen while market rents continued to rise. The Resolution Foundation has warned that without action from John…
A cross-party group of peers has called for almost all gambling advertising in the UK to be banned, provoking an angry response from the lobby representing bookmakers and casinos. The House of Lords liaison committee said the government had been…
At least five Reform UK councillors have been members of a Facebook group promoting the far-right Patriot Platform, according to anti-fascist campaigners. The councillors — two from Solihull, two from Gateshead and one from Kent — belonged to the closed…
The threat of coordinated strike action has forced the government to abandon plans that would have made schools fund part of England’s latest teacher pay rise by cutting into their existing budgets. Members of the National Education Union (NEU), the…
The attack on the triple lock dresses a class conflict up as a dispute between generations. The full new state pension is expected to rise by £488 next April, taking it to £250.70 a week, or £13,036.40 a year. The…
Private rents across the UK have begun accelerating again after a three-year slowdown, with tenants warned that increases could reach 4 percent or 5 percent by the end of the year. The average rent advertised for a new tenancy was…
Two men and a 16-year-old boy have been arrested as far-right demonstrators returned to Portsmouth for a second weekend to protest against immigration. The mobilisation followed the interception last Sunday of a small boat carrying 140 people seeking asylum. Far-right…
Two cryptocurrency billionaires have poured £72m into Reform UK in just 24 hours, giving Nigel Farage’s party the two largest individual donations ever made to a British political party. Christopher Harborne donated £36m, matching a payment from fellow billionaire Ben…
