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  • Young person in black jumper and hoodie with head in hands sitting against a wire fence.

    Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England

    Data paints sobering picture of 11- to 24-year-olds growing up in ‘bleak world’ shaped by pandemic and social media
  • A prisoner walks across a caged walkway above a prison corridor lined with cell doors

    Burnham warned running prison capacity near limit is ‘big risk’

  • Bridget Phillipson arrives in Downing Street to attend a Cabinet meeting. She is wearing a fuchsia jacket and carrying a red folder

    UK social mobility watchdog could be axed as ministers plan shake-up

  • Doctor and patient in a consulting room at a GP surgery

    Doctors’ AI scribes get names of drugs and diagnoses wrong, NHS watchdog warns

  • A person using a small plastic lancet on their finger

    NHS to offer free high-street cholesterol tests in England

  • A security van exits through the arched gate of HMP Wormwood Scrubs prison entrance

    Prisons ‘one major event from disaster’ after U-turn on early release scheme

  • Robin Brown for Other lives

    Robin Brown obituary

Interviews & opinion

  • A middle-aged man with salt-and-pepper hair stands in front of a large hydrangea bush with white and green flowers

    I was abused as a child – and thought I had healed. Then I began drinking in lockdown

  • The social contract between the younger and older generation has been broken, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, with gen Z and millennials set to be worse off than their parents in the face of soaring unemployment, stagnating wages and ballooning house prices

    Gen Z and millennials have it far worse than my generation. Here's why | Opinion

    Video2:30
  • Symeon Brown in his home, with bookshelves and a painting of someone reading a book

    ‘It’s rare to hear: I’m black and middle class’ – Symeon Brown on black Britain’s enduring ‘taboo’

  • Richard Partington

    Britain is paying the price for failing to invest in its young people

    Richard Partington
  • Pediatrician Nathan Heffington examines a child's ear with an otoscope through a car door

    US healthcare
    US health officials exclude measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania from counts

    RFK Jr, the health secretary, has suggested the deaths were ‘fabricated’ while the CDC claimed it was reviewing them
  • Bohannon-caregiver-creep-horizontal-final

    Well actually
    Caregiver creep: how helping elderly relatives can snowball into a full-time job

  • Heart monitor screen.

    AI (artificial intelligence)
    ‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds

  • a woman shaking hands with people

    South Carolina
    A pediatrician is running for Senate. Can doctors change the political debate over health and science?

  • A vial of retatrutide and a syringe.

    Weight-loss drugs
    ‘Who knows what they’re taking?’: people risk the gray market for the newest weight-loss drug

  • illustration of man in mortar board pushing person in wheelchair amid sea of caring hands

    Could this policy fix the care system and slash student debt at the same time?

  • A young woman sits huddled on a staircase, head leaned against the wall, looking distressed

    Vulnerable children deliberately self-harming to stay in care, research finds

  • Someone sitting on a bed, looking out of a window

    ‘Immense drop-off’ in support contributing to care leaver deaths in England, review says

  • A woman sits alone on a sofa in silhouette, gazing toward a sunlit window

    ‘He was left on his own’: the care-leaver lives lost to a system that abandons them at 18

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Stories of Care

  • Three adults lean together over a baby, with flowers and baby items nearby.

    It took a village
    Becoming a solo parent taught me the true meaning of friendship

  • Two people stand with arms around each other's shoulders, facing away, looking at stylized trees

    Parenting
    When my teenage son was struggling, my partner reached him in ways I couldn’t

  • Four women stand in a circle with their heads together, one holding a red ball, looking down at the camera.

    Stronger, better, braver
    How my netball family helped me come back from injury

  • An illustration of four people helping someone in a blue shirt, with others carrying items in the background

    Ageing
    To the friends who were there when I became a full-time carer – your kindness has carried me through

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Central & local government

  • Polly Toynbee

    Nimbys can’t stand in the way of Labour’s legacy: a 21st-century new town boom

    Polly Toynbee
  • James Cleverly

    Cleverly avoids culture war issues in pitch to be next London mayor

  • In a dark suit and tie, surrounded by fellow party members at the Conservative party conference of 2025 and with Kemi Badenoch in the background on a video screen, James Cleverly smiles and applauds

    James Cleverly resigns from shadow cabinet to run for mayor of London

  • DON McPHEE 3 - October 2003 and low water levels at Scammonden dam, West Yorkshire. HOME NEWS copy

    We need new reservoirs – and it’s a job for the state, not private companies

  • Harry wearing cap and shades

    Prince Harry quits board of wildlife charity after rangers’ human rights abuses

  • A green Oxfam shop sign with its logo hangs outside a storefront, viewed from below

    Oxfam ‘can’t guarantee future’ of charity shops as it also reviews warehouse business

  • Claire Lomas, paralysed, smiles wearing a bionic suit and crutches on Tyne Bridge

    Charity campaigner who died after microlight crash was filming Apple TV series, inquest hears

  • Robert Jenrick (left) with Nigel Farage

    Huge number of children would fall into poverty under Reform’s benefits plans, say campaigners

  • Rohan Sathyamoorthy

    More and more undergrads are living at home. That’s a crying shame – here’s why

    Rohan Sathyamoorthy

  • Rejoining the EU, Burnham’s donors and the bedroom tax: Politics Weekly answers your questions – podcast

    Podcast20:06
  • Terraces of new-build houses

    Nonsensical housing policy from Reform

  • An abandoned house stands in a field in Maryland surrounded by bare trees

    ‘An act of resistance’: holdout homes in the US – in pictures

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