Yvette Cooper's plan to rebrand ASBOs as 'Respect Orders' may be good politics – but it's terrible policy, writes former Anti-Social Behaviour Officer Nick Pettigrew
Society
'Gypsies and Travellers are forced to live in areas that no other ethnic group would be expected to live' – Katharine Quarmby reports
The decision to alter Roald Dahl's texts to make them more inclusive misses the mark – and ignores wider failures of diversity in children's publishing, writes Sian Norris
Do disabled people have sex? Of course we do, writes Penny Pepper. Why are you so surprised?
New data has revealed the barriers single parents face in getting back to work, while rates of in-work poverty exposes Tory 'myth' that work is the route to riches, Sian Norris reports
Valiant attempts have been made to measure happiness and wellbeing. People much smarter than me have developed fancy indices, and people even smarter than that, such as our own Nicholas Gruen, has called bullshit on many of them. What I … Continue reading
New ONS data reveals how cold homes and food insecurity is impacting people's physical and emotional health
Maya Esslemont and Sian Norris reveal how crime victims are struggling to access the financial support they are entitled to
New data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reveals the extent of poverty in families
The debt mountain according to the latest official figures is now a billion pounds higher than at the start of the pandemic, reports Chaminda Jayanetti