For John Green, It’s Tuberculosis All the Way Down
The best-selling author “got a little emotional” while talking with The Times about the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Listen to the conversation.
Poverty
Reeves’s statement will leave poorest £500 a year worse off, thinktank finds
Resolution Foundation says ‘outlook for living standards remains bleak’ after chancellor’s cuts to welfareUK politics live – latest updatesLower-income households are on track to become £500 a year poorer by the end of the decade as a result of the UK …
Labour MPs condemn Rachel Reeves’s ‘unacceptable’ welfare cuts
Backbenchers express anger as impact assessment shows 3.2 million households will be worse off Spring statement 2025: key points at a glanceLabour MPs have accused the chancellor of making “devastating” and “unacceptable” welfare cuts after the governm…
Friendships that bridge wealth divides help social mobility, study finds
Children from poorer families growing up amid a mix in income groups are likely to earn more as adultsFriendships that bridge economic divides are good for social mobility, a major study has found, with low-income children growing up where there is mor…
‘I want us to get it right’: Rachael Maskell on becoming Labour’s reluctant rebel
Believing her party should help the poorest, the York Central MP spoke out on winter fuel payments, overseas aid, Waspi women and now benefit cutsRachael Maskell, the MP for York Central, says she did not come into politics to be a rebel. In Keir Starm…
Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade
Experts say planned cuts will deliver series of ‘painful income shocks’ for manySome disabled people could lose nearly £10,000 a year in benefits by the end of the decade under Labour’s controversial disability benefits reforms that will target the liv…
Up to 1.2m disabled people will lose thousands in UK welfare overhaul, experts warn
Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, laid out plans for £5bn savings but faces rebellion from some Labour MPsUp to 1.2 million people with disabilities will lose thousands of pounds under the government’s welfare overhaul, experts have said, a…
Tanni Grey-Thompson among disability campaigners criticising ‘brutal’ benefit cuts
Paralympian says toxic rhetoric around welfare changes has stirred up hatred against disabled people in UK Toxic rhetoric around benefit cuts has stirred up hatred against disabled people, Tanni Grey-Thompson has said, as campaigners called the governm…
UK Aims to Cut Billions in Welfare Amid Budget Crunch
Changing disability allowances is a particularly contentious move within Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s center-left Labour Party.
Unauthorised school absence widening ‘disadvantage gap’ in England
Thinktank says unauthorised absence is ‘a leading cause’ of performance gap between disadvantaged pupils and peersUnauthorised school absence is a leading cause of the widening performance gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers in England, ac…