Society

Cutting disability benefits will do nothing but heighten the scapegoating of disabled people once again – how can a Labour Government introduce such a punitive measure? Penny Pepper asks

A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues Neal Lawson

The Chancellor could have turned this crisis into an opportunity for a radical shakeup of Britain's relationship with Europe and the world, but instead reverted to economic orthodoxy, argues Simon Nixon

The uncomfortable truth about Starmer and Reeves's economic project is it is grim for living standards, public services and recipients of welfare, and should be opposed by all, argues his former senior adviser Simon Fletcher

There is nothing "responsible" about forcing hundreds of thousands of people into poverty, while putting even more strain on those public servants who will have to pick up the pieces, argues Adam Bienkov

The Government has accepted a skewed report authored by people with 'no skin in the game', argues Helen Belcher

These are the real reasons birthrates are falling, argue Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia

In Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool (2023), author James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) is holidaying with his partner Em (Cleopatra Coleman) on the island of Li Tolqa, when he hits and kills a local man while driving back to his resort at night. The next day he is arrested by the authorities and told that the penalty […]

Initiative backed by Baroness Warsi and Nusrat Ghani MP aims to bring Muslim perspectives to issues beyond just extremism and security

One of the biggest triumphs of the modern political right has been to close the space in which nuance and ambiguity can even sit, writes Hardeep Matharu