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From poverty and housing to migrant and LGBTQ+ rights – why 2024 general election has such high stakes
General Election 2024

From poverty and housing to migrant and LGBTQ+ rights – why 2024 general election has such high stakes

Scotland needs real-time rough sleeping count to save lives
homelessness

Scotland needs real-time rough sleeping count to save lives

Sunak calls general election for 4 July: ‘It’s time to put a limping government out of its misery’
General election 2024

Sunak calls general election for 4 July: ‘It’s time to put a limping government out of its misery’

‘More bad news for renters’: Rental crisis continues with steep rent rises despite inflation falling
RENTING

‘More bad news for renters’: Rental crisis continues with steep rent rises despite inflation falling

DWP under investigation over treatment of ill and disabled people after deaths of benefit claimants
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP under investigation over treatment of ill and disabled people after deaths of benefit claimants

Yes, inflation is falling – but nearly 90% of Brits say cost of living crisis is far from over
Inflation

Yes, inflation is falling – but nearly 90% of Brits say cost of living crisis is far from over

Tories are gloating that cost of living crisis is over – they’re wrong: ‘The country is going backwards’
Cost of living crisis

Tories are gloating that cost of living crisis is over – they’re wrong: ‘The country is going backwards’

Low pay as a trainee bus driver left me desperate. I skipped meals and ended up £46k in debt
Cost of living

Low pay as a trainee bus driver left me desperate. I skipped meals and ended up £46k in debt

DWP ramps up AI use to ‘bring the future to the welfare system’ and push people into work
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP ramps up AI use to ‘bring the future to the welfare system’ and push people into work

Gen Z want to buy houses, smoke weed and do crimes, report finds. What does this mean for UK’s future?
Generation Z

Gen Z want to buy houses, smoke weed and do crimes, report finds. What does this mean for UK’s future?

Post-Brexit border checks to cost £4.7bn. Here’s how that money could be better spent
Brexit

Post-Brexit border checks to cost £4.7bn. Here’s how that money could be better spent

Archbishop of Canterbury joins growing calls for end to ‘cruel’ and ‘immoral’ two-child benefit cap
Two-child benefit cap

Archbishop of Canterbury joins growing calls for end to ‘cruel’ and ‘immoral’ two-child benefit cap

Rewilding is bringing creatures great and small back to UK – but a lack of funds is holding it back
Rewilding

Rewilding is bringing creatures great and small back to UK – but a lack of funds is holding it back

FOSO is the new FOMO: Why are we so afraid to switch off and be out of office?
Work

FOSO is the new FOMO: Why are we so afraid to switch off and be out of office?

Almost no recorded cases of disability benefit fraud despite DWP crackdown: ‘PIP fraud is a non-issue’
Disability benefits

Almost no recorded cases of disability benefit fraud despite DWP crackdown: ‘PIP fraud is a non-issue’

Deaf man awarded £50,000 after ‘oppressive’ and ‘discriminatory’ treatment by DWP
Department for Work and Pensions

Deaf man awarded £50,000 after ‘oppressive’ and ‘discriminatory’ treatment by DWP

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All of Keir Starmer’s U-turns and abandoned policy pledges, from child benefits to private schools
Labour

All of Keir Starmer’s U-turns and abandoned policy pledges, from child benefits to private schools

Over 90,000 households threatened with no-fault evictions since Tories promised to ban them
RENTING

Over 90,000 households threatened with no-fault evictions since Tories promised to ban them

Starmer warned over glaring omission in Labour’s six general election pledges: ‘I’m disappointed’
Housing crisis

Starmer warned over glaring omission in Labour’s six general election pledges: ‘I’m disappointed’

‘We are here and we exist’: Inside the neighbourhood offering sanctuary to queer Russians and Ukrainians
Pride

‘We are here and we exist’: Inside the neighbourhood offering sanctuary to queer Russians and Ukrainians