Disability benefit cuts that are expected to affect more than 450,000 people by 2029 will only lead to 15,400 more people finding paid work, according to official forecasts

That's about three percent of the number of people affected.

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I asked an IDF spokesman if Israel plans to investigate the mass graves found in Khan Younis.

“Investigate what?” he replied, after calling the reports “fake news.” politico.com/newsletters/na…

'At least 20 people may have been buried alive at the medical complex. Children were also amongst the bodies recovered'

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Richard Black was left stranded in Trinidad for 41 years after his UK citizenship was revoked - despite living in the UK since he was six.

We went with him as he visited his mother's grave in London for the first time. He was refused travel documents to attend her funeral.

the most over-used word in book reviews: tender - a ruined word!

BREAKING: The House of Commons votes by 320 to 246 to overturn an amendment which would have stopped victims of modern slavery from being deported to Rwanda

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Alongside all the mourning there is comfort in how the Sudanese people have pooled their few resources and opened up their homes - a reminder that a country is not a place, but a spirit.

My column on one year of Sudan's war.

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I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this poem since reading it on poetryisnotaluxurys feed yesterday.

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The marked change in response to the attacks following the killings of foreign aid workers has thrown a sharp light on just how little Palestinian lives matter to British politicians and the mainstream media Aimee Shalan Hyphen hyphenonline.com/2024/04/12/the…

'The most senior IDF commander dismissed for his role in the drone strike which killed seven aid workers in Gaza is a settler who signed an open letter in January calling for the territory to be deprived of aid.'

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Three candidates to be the next mayor of London have refused to explain why they failed to turn up to a packed hustings event that would have allowed disabled people from across the capital to question them on their policies.
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Homeless London families marched on government offices and served housing secretary Michael Gove an eviction notice this morning.

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Clumsily phrased - but shout out to the series director Satiyesh Manoharajah for speaking to me!