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Food laid out in crates at a food bank in north London, March 2021
Healthcare / 17 July 2025
17 July 2025
BRAVE NEW WORLD? Annual British Educational Training and Technology conference in London, January 2025, where Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson set out plans to use technology to ‘modernise’ the education system, support teachers and ‘deliver’ for pupils
Technology / 27 June 2025
27 June 2025

NICOLA SARAH HAWKINS explains how an under-regulated introduction of AI into education is already exacerbating inequalities

Coins in a Saltire purse
Anti-Poverty / 18 June 2025
18 June 2025
Scottish Money
Scotland / 2 June 2025
2 June 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to the media at Strategic Command Headquarters, in Northwood, Greater London, May 22, 2025
Labour Party / 2 June 2025
2 June 2025

A devastating new 44-page report reveals Labour’s cuts will push 400,000 into poverty and cost disabled people up to £10,000 annually, while the government refuses to make savings by cutting spending on war instead, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY

Children enjoying playing on swings
Britain / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
Protesters demonstrate as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is about
Britain / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Labour accused of ‘balancing the books off the backs of the poor’ in spring spending statement
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a business meeting with t
Britain / 29 January 2025
29 January 2025
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister walks in the direction of the biggest bosses
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 27 January 2025
27 January 2025
RAPID RENEWAL: Changsha’s statue of Mao, the city at night
Features / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
Hunan province’s transformation shows how state investment can lift millions from deprivation — but Western states avoid discussion of this while ramping up military spending instead, writes FIONA EDWARDS
Homeless people sleeping rough
Britain / 25 November 2024
25 November 2024
Stocks of food at a foodbank
World / 20 November 2024
20 November 2024
The Trussell Trust calls on NI executive to act on hunger after 35,000 emergency food parcels were distributed across the six counties
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 12 November 2024
12 November 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets with representatives o
Editorial: / 5 November 2024
5 November 2024
Finance Secretary Shona Robison at the Scottish Parliament,
Britain / 31 October 2024
31 October 2024
A child playing
Britain / 20 October 2024
20 October 2024