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NEET young people with mental health conditions face disproportionate hospitalisation rates, new data shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

Disability activists have raised concerns that young disabled people are being unfairly targeted in welfare reforms aimed at pushing more people into work.

Trump backed Brexit. Now he’s its biggest liability

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

If Trump hoped to tilt British politics towards more populist figures like Nigel Farage, he may instead be pushing it in the opposite direction.

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Pedro Sánchez’s widely-applauded ceasefire response, cuts through Europe’s caution

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

The Spanish PM has been among Europe’s most outspoken critics of military escalation in the region, as well as a vocal supporter of Palestinian rights.

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Why the Bank of England’s new bailout ‘conditions’ are nothing of the sort

Prem Sikka
22 May, 2020

Governments across the world are fudging it when it comes to the ‘strings attached’….

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EXCLUSIVE: Another data breach hits contact tracing scheme

Joe Lo Josiah Mortimer
21 May, 2020

It’s the second time this week outsourcing companies have made this mistake.

The poorest shouldn’t pay for coronavirus – banks should

David Hillman
21 May, 2020

A Robin Hood Tax could bring in nearly £5bn a year.

Committee accuses politicians of tweeting misinformation

Joe Lo
21 May, 2020

Remember ‘fact check UK’?

“Austerity kills people” – epidemiologist warns cuts could lead to second covid wave

Joe Lo
21 May, 2020

He’s said austerity killed 40,000 people a year.

Trade Bill threatens our NHS and crushes scrutiny, say campaigners

Josiah Mortimer
20 May, 2020

“The Bill leaves our NHS open to further privatisation by Donald Trump and his private healthcare cronies.”

150,000 sign petition demanding pay rise for NHS staff

Josiah Mortimer
20 May, 2020

LFF speaks to healthcare assistant Shane Longton (pictured holding the word ‘You’) – whose petition has caught the public mood.

Who cares for our carers? NHS staff are on the brink of a mental health crisis

Onkar Sahota
20 May, 2020

“The mental health impact of what NHS frontline workers are facing is like that faced by soldiers at times of war.”

Rural Britain needs a New Deal

Gill Cookson
20 May, 2020

Rural poverty has been ignored for too long – and it could get much worse without serious action now.

The pandemic shows we need to rethink what we mean by ‘national security’

Andrew Smith
20 May, 2020

Governments have had the wrong priorities for too long.

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