Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Society

  • Martin Raw

    Martin Raw obituary

  • Woman in a wheelchair using a ramp.

    Tell us your experience of wheelchair access in the UK

    We’d like to find out more about your experience of accessing wheelchairs via the NHS
  • Salt being poured from a red container on to a black surface

    More than a third of children’s restaurant meals still exceed salt target

    Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Prezzo and Wetherspoon’s among worst offenders, Action on Salt survey suggests
  • UK - Criminal Justice - HMP Portland prison<br>A prisoner is escorted to his cell by an officer next to the stairs on Benbow wing inside HMP/YOI Portland, a resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners. Dorset, United Kingdom. (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)

    High-risk offenders included in early release scheme, prisons inspector says

  • A protest on the condition of rented housing in London last year.

    Cap rent rises in England and Wales, Labour-commissioned report says

  • Tim Spector

    Health expert Tim Spector criticised for remarks on year-round use of sunscreen

  • A midwife talking to a pregnant woman, with both seen from the neck down

    ‘I was left lying on the ground in pain’: shocking stories from UK birth trauma inquiry

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Interviews & opinion

  • Liz Carr in her documentary about assisted dying, Better Off Dead?

    ‘I’m fighting for the right to live’: Liz Carr on acting, friendship and her campaign against assisted dying

  • 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’

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

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
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

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'

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Health

  • Nurse Natasha used to play the cello to the Covid patients.

    UK news
    NHS nurses quit after working through Covid – a photo essay

  • Four African women talk in a dimly lit communal area

    Global development
    Celebrate, remember and reframe: the therapy sessions healing South Africa’s women

    As the trauma of apartheid, crime and violence continue to ripple through society, a counselling initiative by Tree of Life creator Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo is helping ease the pain
  • I was at my desk thinking ‘what is my job?’ … the fog of work.

    How to have a healthy menopause
    ‘I felt like I was losing my mind’: how to keep your career on track during menopause

    So many women get discouraged by memory problems and low confidence that they’d rather quit than struggle on. But awareness is growing, and workplaces can help

  • Inequality
    Public health expert lambasts UK government as fund to tackle inequality launches

  • Institute for Fiscal Studies
    NHS spending rise lags behind Tory funding pledges, IFS finds

  • Insurance (Australia)
    Some say it’s ‘genetic discrimination’, but insurance companies are fighting for access to these test results

  • Medical research
    Weight loss drug could reduce heart attack risk by 20%, study finds

Paid content
About

Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team.


Learn more about Guardian Labs content

Better baskets

Guardian Labs
  • Broadbean salad

    Homegrown goodness
    Why we should all be eating more broad beans

  • Chickpeas

    The humble chickpea is having a moment
    Here’s why they’re here to stay

  • Karen Poole

    ‘We’re doing it by stealth’
    How Tesco is reformulating its much-loved meals to be healthier

  • Illustration of graph overlaying overhead view of plate and ingredients

    From ready-meal lovers to at-home chefs
    How Tesco is improving the nation’s nutrition

Paid for by
Labs sponsor logo

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
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Social care

  • Gordon Brown

    Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My £3bn plan would give them hope

    Gordon Brown
  • A woman holds the handles of a wheelchair in which an elderly woman with grey hair in sitting. They are facing away from the camera and neither of their faces are visible.

    Cost of dementia to UK could almost double to £91bn by 2040, study finds

  • Leonie Sheedy in audience

    ‘We’ve waited long enough’: Victorian government to pay $276m for those abused in state care

  • Zainab Contractor and her brother Ismail

    Revealed: thousands of ‘innocent and abandoned’ migrant care workers told to leave UK

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Central & local government

  • Suella Braverman.

    Live
    Braverman tells MPs Belfast court ruling shows Sunak’s Windsor framework has ‘failed on first contact with reality’ – UK politics live

  • Richard Parker

    ‘Emotionally exhausting’: Richard Parker on his surprise mayoral win

  • A protests agains the Rwanda bill at Downing Street earlier this month

    UK politics: government to appeal against ruling that blocks Rwanda deportations in Northern Ireland – as it happened

  • Gery Bramall for Other Lives obituary

    Letter: Gery Bramall obituary

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Voluntary sector

  • a Tesco checkout with Tesco bags for life

    Charities attack Tesco rules for evening-only collection of unwanted food

  • Arthritic woman's hand on her walking stick

    Revealed: people with cancer, arthritis and amputations among 40% denied disability benefits

  • Two staff members sitting at a desk looking up at a bank of CCTV display screens

    ‘We can’t tackle drink-spiking alone’: Met teams up with London venues amid increasing reports

  • Celia Richardson

    The culture warriors have come for the National Trust. This is how we take them on – and win

    Celia Richardson
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Housing

  • Architect's drawing of a cooperative housing project in Amsterdam called De Torteltuin

    ‘What if we built our own?’: young Amsterdammers fight housing crisis with cooperative build

    • People rough sleeping in tents next to the River Thames opposite the Palace of Westminster

      Braverman plan to criminalise rough sleeping dropped after Tory criticism

    • L&Q are building new homes but the service charges are spiralling.

      L&Q has raised my flat’s service charge by 41%. I can’t afford it

    • Steve Gallant and Darryn Frost

      Help former inmates make the most of a second chance at life

    • Activist and former Walker Street resident Will Gwynne: ‘The first time I saw the film, I just collapsed.’

      ‘I just can’t move again’: the Melbourne public housing residents fighting to save their community

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Most viewed