The benefit reduction will affect child welfare services and only cost more later down the line, says Emily Aklan, while Sabine Goodwin says food banks will struggle to copeYour article (Universal credit cut will lead to more UK children in care – stud…
We must fight gender inequality in healthcare research | Letter
Less is known about women’s health than men’s – that’s because research on the former is underfunded, says Silvia HummelJessica Nordell raises several important issues facing women and people from ethnic minorities in accessing quality healthcare …
Labour looks aimless because it’s already searching for Starmer’s replacement | Rafael Behr
The opposition leader might think he is treading the road to government, but he is surrounded by people mapping routes for his successorA national fuel crisis coinciding with Labour’s annual conference was good and bad news for Keir Starmer. The bad ne…
12% of English pupils report continuing Covid symptoms weeks after infection
Secondary school students and staff describe persistent problems that point to scale of long CovidCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than one in 10 pupils and over a third of school staff with Covid continued to suffer sym…
‘So different’: how the millennials of 28 Up are coping with changing times
As a new chapter of the landmark series begins, life isn’t the same as it was for their baby boomer forbearsIt was a groundbreaking documentary series that became a TV institution as it followed the lives of 14 Britons of vastly different backgrounds f…
‘We’re concentrating on the villains’: the shocking play about the Grenfell tragedy
The writer of a drama about the Grenfell inquiry – and the £800,000 cost-cutting that made the refurbishment lethal – explains how this story is a microcosm for what’s rotten in Britain todayAlthough Richard Norton-Taylor’s ninth play makes its debut l…
Labour conference: Jeremy Corbyn insists Andy McDonald’s resignation not part of anti-Starmer plot – live
Latest updates from Brighton as former party leader says Andy McDonald’s resignation from the shadow cabinet was not a Machiavellian plotAngela Rayner angered by Andy McDonald’s resignationStop blaming public for petrol shortages, Labour tells minister…
Labour conference rivals Matt Hancock’s meet-and-greet video for pure viral horror | Marina Hyde
This entire event has spent four days crying out to be locked in a loft (one that’s insulated, of course)On Sunday, I watched a video of Matt Hancock doing a constituency walkabout, which our former Covid overlord posted and then deleted from his own T…
UK petrol stations show ‘very tentative signs of stabilisation’, says transport secretary – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as the UK’s supply chain crisis continuesLatest: Grant Shapps says ‘signs of stabilisations’ in petrol storageShapps: don’t fill up water bottles with fuelIntro: More queues and shortages at p…
Torchlight procession and a hungry polar bear: Tuesday’s best photos
The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading…