People in the newly Tory seat react to the national insurance hike with a mix of realism and resentment at the effect on the low-paidIn the former red wall seat of Stoke-on-Trent Central, which the Conservatives won for the first time in 2019 with a ma…
We are letting down children with mental health problems | Letter
Effective support requires the provision of basic needs but services are overwhelmed, writes Siobhan BryantAs a senior child and adolescent mental health nurse working in the NHS, I cannot agree more that young people need more than antidepressants (Ch…
Boris Johnson has created a ‘social care plan’ without any plan for social care | Frances Ryan
The prime minister had a chance to effect real reform. Instead, he chose the Tory base over disabled people and care workersTwo years after Boris Johnson promised a plan for social care, it can hardly be said that today’s announcement was “worth the wa…
‘You’re not geriatric at 35’: women on the eggs, embryos and sperm storage limit increase
The rise to a 55-year limit has been welcomed, but some have concerns about the impact on childrenThe 10-year storage limit for freezing embryos, eggs and sperm will be replaced with a right for individuals or couples to keep them for up to a maximum o…
Share your thoughts on the social care reform plans
We would like to hear from care home managers and staff about the plans announced by the governmentThe government has announced the NHS will get £36bn over the next three years which will be funded by a new “health and social care levy,” which will be …
Baby, unplugged: can sleep monitors make me a better parent?
By baby No 2, I just wanted a good night’s sleep. But my journey into baby tech taught me something else, writes Sophie BrickmanWhen my daughter Ella was little, I’d often see various tech products on my Facebook feed purporting to calm parents who wer…
‘There is so much bad behaviour everywhere’: how to raise a good child in a terrible world
Amid Trump, #MeToo and rising hate crime, science writer Melinda Wenner Moyer decided it was time to learn how to stop her kids becoming ‘assholes’. Her research became an unusual, much-needed parenting bookWhen Melinda Wenner Moyer looked around in th…
The cannabis industry is booming, but for many Black Americans the price of entry is steep
Social equity rules can reduce barriers to entry for communities most affected by discriminatory drug lawsWhile Bernard Noble sat in a Louisiana jail riding out a 13-year sentence for possession of 2.8 grams of marijuana, cannabis legalization and decr…
Nadhim Zahawi ‘not comfortable’ with breaking manifesto promises
Minister’s comments come as PM prepares to announce rise in NI contributions to fund social careA UK government minister has said he is “not comfortable with breaking any manifesto promises” as the prime minister prepares to announce an increase in nat…
‘No one may be compelled’: Zimbabwe unions go to court over Covid jabs
Firms accused of ‘rounding up workers like animals’ for compulsory vaccination as country acts to stop spread of virusThousands of workers in Zimbabwe have been told they will face the sack if they refuse to be vaccinated with one of the Covid-19 jabs,…