Carer’s allowance turns 50 this year, but it’s no reflection of the labour of the millions who cook, clean and nurse behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Isobel, a 49-year-old psychotherapist, shares her experience of suffering with debilitating menopause symptoms which forced her to step back from work.

Councils failed to assess over a third of homeless young peoples' needs in England last year, Centrepoint found

Experts have estimated that switching from liquid medicines to tablets could save the NHS £40,000 per patient per year

ANAS Sarwar is under pressure to explain whether he supports cutting NHS Scotland dentistry so that it no longer provides services such as crowns…

Tribalism has not faded over the past decade. Instead, new research reveals our politics has become ever-more polarised and fractious, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Grants arrangement via an intermediary raises concerns that companies are trying to influence the charity’s campaigns with local councils

Government allocated 0.43% of national income to aid in 2025, with total spend down £1bn on previous year

Major hydrogen project to create over 400 new jobs in technology that uses electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

Claimants can also volunteer without an automatic welfare reassessment

Wide-ranging review finds no convincing connection after Trump said women should ‘fight like hell’ to avoid painkiller

The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

Baby banks in London say supplies are running low due to more families facing increased financial pressures.

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

The EU is the destination for 78% of steel products made in the UK for overseas markets.

Exclusive: poll asked voters to rank parties on how favourably they felt about them, with strong support in capital and among younger voters

Zack Polanski echoes Reform UK’s push for central bank policy change

Women’s average monthly earnings fall by 42% compared with one year before birth, ONS study finds

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

New analysis identifies parliamentary areas that could be vulnerable to development for fracking if Nigel Farage’s party were to get into government

A joint statement from six Nottinghamshire councils has disputed information released by Cllr Mick Barton

The health secretary says

Exclusive: Officials exploring options to change rule that affected 1.7 million children in Great Britain last year UK politics live – latest updates

Arron Banks says rightwing party, if it wins power, should ‘cut away’ at civil service and roll back human rights laws

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

The Work and Pensions Secretary tells the BBC he will press ahead with welfare system changes.

Heidi Alexander approves expansion to allow 100,000 more flights a year

Ed Miliband is expected to allow exploration next to existing sites to increase fossil fuel production without breaking a manifesto pledge

Exclusive: Interior Architecture Landscape, which faced closure by HMRC early this year, made donation in June

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