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Britain’s new social safety net

The old saying goes “it takes a village” to raise a child – that is as true today as it ever has been.

23/05/2025

Child poverty is Britain’s ongoing, forgotten crisis

Mary remembers when she became homeless. She was in year four at school and her family “hopped” around different friends’ houses for a year. During that time, she stopped going to class for months, which led to the school stepping in.

22/05/2025

Symposium: Are we over-diagnosing mental health conditions?

Britain is in the grip of a mental health reckoning. Once taboo, the language of anxiety, depression, trauma and neurodivergence is now part of everyday conversation. Public campaigns have encouraged us to speak openly about mental well-being.

22/05/2025

How the fight against sleeping sickness was won

As we grapple with the ongoing threat of Mpox and the scars of Covid remain raw, there is reason for cautious celebration: we are on the brink of eradicating a brutal disease that has tormented Africa for generations.

11/09/2024

Community ownership matters

Extending cooperative models of ownership for core community assets can open the path to true decentralisation.

24/04/2024

Transforming the renewable energy sector

Dogger Bank, powered by SSE, will become the UK's largest wind farm – and power over six million homes.

09/11/2023

Why climate despair is a luxury

When you take on hope, you take on its opposites and opponents: despair, defeatism, cynicism and pessimism. And, I would argue, optimism. What all these enemies of hope have in common is confidence about what is going to happen, a false certainty…

17/07/2023

The man who lives on rubbish

Dumpster-diving with Patrick O’Hare, the anthropologist fighting for our right to what people throw away.

30/07/2022

Why an end to economic growth is inevitable

Fifty years after the Limits to Growth report was published, the concept of post-growth remains largely taboo.

29/06/2022

Scotland’s forests are the largest they have been for 900 years

The share of Scotland that is forested has increased from 6 per cent a century ago to around 18 per cent today.

08/04/2022

“We grow meat from cells, they are just not connected to a cow”: Didier Toubia on the future of farming

Reducing the environmental impact of meat is becoming big business. The CEO of Aleph Farm explains why he is betting on lab-grown meat.

01/12/2021

How forests are helping Rwanda heal the climate and its communities

Planting millions of trees is part of the national recovery from the 1994 genocide, when 800,000 people were killed.

10/11/2021

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