The lack of self-isolation support remains a gaping hole in the UK’s Covid-19 response
Test and trace is pointless without quarantining cases. But the government still isn’t ensuring that people have the financial help…
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Many people think poor families don’t deserve pleasure. Our insulting “food hampers” prove it
The woefully inadequate food parcels sent out to needy children undermined the dignity and the basic well-being of those who received them.
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How Covid-19 changed the rules of relationships
The pandemic has acted as a gargantuan stress-test, accelerating new couples and putting extra strain on those already struggling.
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Leader: The welfare conundrum
Rather than cutting Universal Credit, Rishi Sunak should use this moment to build the resilient welfare state the UK has long needed.
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It would be morally indefensible – and politically foolish – to cut Universal Credit
The reversal of the £20-a-week increase in Universal Credit would cost six million families £1,040 a year.
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Why Conservative defensiveness over Universal Credit shows how politics has changed
Welfare, once an issue that raised Tory spirits, is now a source of gloom.
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Before I lived alone I thought I was an introvert. Now I realise I was simply exhausted
I always saw the appeal of living by myself. But during lockdown, it feels less like liberation and more like…
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Why is gender equality being overlooked in the post-Covid recovery?
The pandemic threatens to reverse decades of feminist progress – governments must act now.
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