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Benefits stigma is booming. Here are the key myths around the system – debunked
Benefits

Benefits stigma is booming. Here are the key myths around the system – debunked

Damaging rhetoric around benefit claimants is on the rise after the chancellor’s autumn budget. Here are the key misunderstandings and myths around the benefits system

Was the child poverty strategy worth the wait?
Child poverty

Was the child poverty strategy worth the wait?

Labour’s child poverty strategy has finally been released. It is estimated that it will lift half a million children out of poverty, mostly down to the end of the two-child limit on benefits

Meet the renters and pets spending their first Christmas together: ‘I definitely took it for granted’
Dogs

Meet the renters and pets spending their first Christmas together: ‘I definitely took it for granted’

Owning a pet could once have put renters on a collision course with their landlords. But those days are over

What could – and should – be in Labour’s long-awaited child poverty strategy?
Child poverty

What could – and should – be in Labour’s long-awaited child poverty strategy?

Revealed: MPs rack up huge taxpayer-funded rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits
Exclusive

Revealed: MPs rack up huge taxpayer-funded rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits

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What is the story of The Beatles really about?
Music

What is the story of The Beatles really about?

Rachel Reeves unveils new ‘mansion tax’ on £2 million homes. But does it go far enough?
Mansion tax

Rachel Reeves unveils new ‘mansion tax’ on £2 million homes. But does it go far enough?

Two-child benefit cap axed and wage hikes: What Rachel Reeves’ autumn budget means for your money
Autumn budget

Two-child benefit cap axed and wage hikes: What Rachel Reeves’ autumn budget means for your money

‘It’s not like a normal pub’: How communities are rallying together to breathe new life into dying pubs
Pubs

‘It’s not like a normal pub’: How communities are rallying together to breathe new life into dying pubs

How did Rachel Reeves do in her first autumn budget? We ask people on the frontlines, one year on
autumn budget

How did Rachel Reeves do in her first autumn budget? We ask people on the frontlines, one year on

Africa’s first G20 must put debt justice at the heart of the inequality agenda
Attiya Waris

Africa’s first G20 must put debt justice at the heart of the inequality agenda

Shocking number of children in care live without consistent love and support of an adult
Lisa Harker

Shocking number of children in care live without consistent love and support of an adult

Why are we so obsessed with surrounding ourselves with music?
Music

Why are we so obsessed with surrounding ourselves with music?

Frozen housing benefit pushes renters into homelessness. Will Labour finally listen and thaw it?
Renting

Frozen housing benefit pushes renters into homelessness. Will Labour finally listen and thaw it?

Edible insects were once the future of food. Now it’s crickets. Where did it go wrong?
Food

Edible insects were once the future of food. Now it’s crickets. Where did it go wrong?

Millions of Brits can’t afford to buy enough food. How do we feed a hungry nation?
Food

Millions of Brits can’t afford to buy enough food. How do we feed a hungry nation?

Modern fishing is going further, bigger and deeper than ever. But there’s a big catch
Food

Modern fishing is going further, bigger and deeper than ever. But there’s a big catch

Rachel Reeves looks set to raise taxes in the autumn budget. What does it mean for you?
Autumn budget

Rachel Reeves looks set to raise taxes in the autumn budget. What does it mean for you?

‘Vegans lost the battle, but they won the war’: The truth about the anti-vegan backlash
Food

‘Vegans lost the battle, but they won the war’: The truth about the anti-vegan backlash

The Yo-yo Home files: These are the Right to Buy properties councils have lost millions on buying back
Yo-yo Homes

The Yo-yo Home files: These are the Right to Buy properties councils have lost millions on buying back

Why homelessness is rising in Finland – and what Britain can learn
Homelessness

Why homelessness is rising in Finland – and what Britain can learn

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Why British sauna culture is picking up steam
Health

Why British sauna culture is picking up steam

Behind the sleigh bells and huskies of Lapland’s Christmas industry, the Sámi people struggle
Lapland

Behind the sleigh bells and huskies of Lapland’s Christmas industry, the Sámi people struggle

Should stamp duty be scrapped?
Stamp duty

Should stamp duty be scrapped?

Thatcher didn’t just change the shape of Britain – but the heart and soul of the British people
Louisa Toxvaerd Munch

Thatcher didn’t just change the shape of Britain – but the heart and soul of the British people