Decades ago, measles was a routine part of childhood until Australia eliminated the highly-contagious virus through a vaccination campaign. So why are we now seeing the return of it and other preventable childhood diseases?

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment

The Swedish government should apologise to the indigenous Sami people for past injustices and Sami interests should be given stronger ​consideration against mining and wind power projects, a government-appointed commission ‌said on Wednesday.

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...

In 2021 the UK House of Commons rescinded its short-lived ‘English Votes for English Laws’ (EVEL) procedures, which had delivered differentiated voting rights to MPs to compensate for asymmetric te...

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for widespread reforms to the children’s social care system to improve the quality of support and life-long outcomes for people in care and care leavers.

Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the road

Hey look, I have unlocked a new level of predatory publishing fraud: someone out there is automating so aggressively that they are not just misspelling the

Exclusive: Letter says L&Q appears to have systematically failed in its duty to provide adequate standard of living

Unwinding can be hard during the holidays for many reasons. Building in time to recharge through active leisure can help.

Protecting places that are likely to remain cool and moist as global temperatures rise can save wildlife of all kinds, but first we have to find them.

‘Political financing’ refers to all money that is raised and spent for political purposes. Political financing has been formally regulated in the United Kingdom since the Corrupt and Illegal Practices...

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Judgement finds systems designed to protect against inhuman and degrading treatment ‘unlawfully’ failing for years

Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, said the government was not ‘backing away’ from benefits changes The UK welfare system is not helping enough people into work and has significantly rising costs, and no one should think the government is backing away from reforming it, the work and pensions secretary has said. Pat McFadden made the comments as the government published its new child poverty strategy on Friday. Continue reading...

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