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Society

  • Residential properties in London

    Housing is many UK voters’ priority but rental system remains unfixed

  • A 31-year-old man has been charged with several offences relating to the production, possession and distribution of illegal drugs

    Magic mushrooms: 200 tubs of psilocybin seized at suburban Queensland house, police allege - video

    A 31-year-old man has been charged with several offences relating to the production, possession and distribution of illegal drugs
  • Davina Ware wearing black sitting on chair with her body facing the camera

    ‘Humiliated’: carer made to pay back £3.8k after mistake declaring income

    Davina Ware applied for benefits to help look after husband Mike, 72, who has lived with Parkinson’s for 20 years
  • A young man helps an older man use a laptop.

    Half a million unpaid carers in UK not claiming £4,200 a year benefit

  • The shortages have made one patient feel he has ‘no choice’ but to stockpile medicine by taking less than the intended dose.

    ‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’: the stress caused by UK drug shortages

  • Protester holding a sign saying respect my existence or expect my resistance

    Scottish gender clinic pauses prescribing puberty blockers to under-18s

  • Homelessness is on the rise globally, and the Czech Republic has the highest rate in central and eastern Europe. The Guardian visited Prague, for a long time a popular destination for tourists, to see how even this sector caters for the city’s visitors - and to meet the range of people aiming to tackle the causes of homelessness in all its forms.

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    Why Prague's homeless are resorting to poverty tourism – video

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Interviews & opinion

  • Dr Hilary Cass

    ‘Children are being used as a football’: Hilary Cass on her review of gender identity services

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    There is a perfect time to shower – and it’s not when you think

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Lisa Mosconi

    Neurology professor Lisa Mosconi: ‘Menopause is a renovation project on the brain’

  • Hilary Osborne

    I was stunned when diagnosed with cancer. Then I had to work out how to tell my son

    Hilary Osborne
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In mind: focus on mental health

  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week

  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • Mel Stride

    Health policy
    Those signed off feeling depressed classed as incapable of work, says Stride

  • A two-storey building in a snowy landscape with a steeply pitched roof and all its windows aglow with light

    The Guardian picture essay
    Juliette Pavy: Sony World Photographer of the Year 2024

    The prestigious Photographer of the Year title has been awarded to Juliette Pavy for her series Spiralkampagnen: Forced Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women
  • A doctor writing a fit note

    Health policy
    Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system

    Prime minister to express concern about ‘over-medicalising’ normal worries with diagnoses as mental health conditions

  • Nestlé
    KitKat owner Nestlé fights off push to cut back on unhealthy products

  • Transgender
    Hilary Cass’s report and the trans rights debate

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan to restrict cigarette sales – cartoon

  • Bird flu
    Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO

  • Opinion
    Yet again, we in Scotland have the lowest life expectancy in western Europe. Here’s how to improve it

    Devi Sridhar

  • Features
    She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why?

Blood, sweat & tears

  • Patient receiving chemotherapy

    Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

    Lucy Gossage
    Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
  • Surgery

    I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon
  • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

    There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous
  • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

    My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous
  • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

    I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

    Catherine Pointer
  • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

    I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

    Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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Social care

  • Zoe Williams

    Of course a society that demonises poverty will try to prosecute vulnerable, unpaid carers

    Zoe Williams
  • Terri White

    Sure Start could have changed everything for my family. Labour must be brave – and revitalise it

    Terri White
  • A female carer holds the hand of an elderly woman in a wheelchair

    DWP warns carers they could face greater penalties if they appeal against fines

  • Woman opening an empty wallet

    Unpaid carers lose out in benefits gap

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Central & local government

  • Sign for Whitehall in central London.

    Former civil servant says ‘racism in Cabinet Office’ forced her to resign

  • Andy Street wearing pink tie standing inside an empty train holding on to a pole in an aisle.

    Andy Street ditches Tories in West Midlands mayoral campaign material

  • A dark corridor in temporary housing accommodation supplied to a mother and children.

    ‘Rat bites and chronic asthma’: schools on frontline of UK housing crisis

  • Kemi Badenoch leaving Downing Street

    Kemi Badenoch to oppose smoking ban in blow to Sunak’s authority

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Voluntary sector

  • Warwick Davis and his wife, Samantha, centre, with Harrison, left, and Annabelle in London in 2022.

    ‘My soul mate’: Warwick Davis pays tribute to wife Samantha who has died aged 53

  • A pensioner's hand in front of an electric fire

    Leak reveals Tory plan to cut cold weather cash for disabled people

  • Gaza auction composite: Olivia Colman, Paul mescal, Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon, Olivia Colman and Paul Mescal join star donors of Cinema for Gaza auction

  • Crew onboard an RNLI lifeboat pick up people in an inflatable boat who were travelling across the English Channel.

    RNLI says volunteers saved 355 lives last year, with London stations the busiest

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Housing

  • Jack Kramme

    Bed bugs and cockroaches: the legal battle over conditions in a Melbourne community housing block

    • Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner visit a distillery to learn more about the importance of the industry and to talk about Labour’s New Deal for Working People. Diageo’s Glenkinchie Distillery, Pencaitland, Tranent East Lothian, Scotland UK 02/02/2024 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. A22U4Y, sgealbadh, A22R4S

      Tory ‘attack dog’ reheats failed ploy used against Starmer to go for Rayner

    • French gendarmes stand by as people leave the squat in an abandoned bus company headquarters

      Hundreds evicted from France’s biggest squat months before Paris Olympics

    • A person reacts as their possessions are seized during a sweep of an encampment in Los Angeles in January 2021.

      Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

    • To let signs

      Inaction on no-fault evictions blamed for thousands facing homelessness

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