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His final report is due this month. His review, alongside a separate review of PIP led by disability minister Sir Stephen Timms , will shape how the benefits system supports people into work. Both come as ministers face…
There she is, grim-faced, on my computer screen, mouthing the word “help”. She can’t get her microphone and speaker to work on our video call, so after a torturous few minutes of flapping, mutely muttering and miming…
The 500m-long high street starts at the top of Vicarage Road and is largely one-way: beginning with the Cornish Pizza Company, it winds past the community-focused Mechanics and Miners’ Institute (MMI), independent…
This week we speak to Matthew Mace, 35, who lives in Kent with his partner, Mandeep, 42, and their daughter, Noor, four. Matthew is in £70,000 worth of debt and adds no money to savings or a pension. Matthew and Mandeep…
If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single week, you can sign up here . Boring, isn’t it? Winning the league in second gear by grinding out results. Not for Arsenal. They are loving it because nothing…
Join today Already a member? Log in A former commanding officer of the Special Air Service told his men in Northern Ireland that their lives were worth less than those of terrorists during the delicate peace negotiations…
Major firms, including Marks and Spencer , Amazon, Pret a Manger and NatWest Group have pledged to provide new opportunities for people who are out of work, including youngsters and older adults who have experienced…
The 120th Congress is set to be a three-ring circus of banging gavels, evasive witnesses and furious denials as some two dozen overlapping hearings get under way, right after new members of Congress are sworn in on 3…
The Pope was speaking as he arrived in Buenos Aires, the second stop on a 12-day tour of Latin America, only three weeks after having had surgery for lung cancer. In response, right-wing leader Milei said his government…
On the day we speak, the list includes her nephew and her wife, Ilana Kloss, who like her is a decorated former tennis player. And, as ever, Susan Williams, who was in King's fifth grade class at school in Long Beach…