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  • UK To Release Prisoners Early To Alleviate Overcrowding<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 12: A general view of HM Prison Wandsworth on July 12, 2024 in London, England. The country's new justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, announced today that the government will release thousands of prisoners early to alleviate overcrowding. Under the new policy, prisoners on "standard determinate sentences" will be released after serving 40% of their sentences, rather than 50%. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    Sunak rejected advice to release prisoners early while PM

  • Person on laptop using online gambling slot machines

    Harm from problem gambling in Great Britain ‘may be eight times higher than thought’

    Largest ever survey of its kind shows estimated 2.5% of adults have struggled with problem gambling
  • A glass filled with red wine

    Moderate drinking not better for health than abstaining, analysis suggests

    Scientists say flaws in previous research mean health benefits from alcohol were exaggerated
  • Zara McDermott and Graziano Di Prima on Strictly Come Dancing

    Can Strictly survive its biggest scandal? – podcast

  • A woman wearing a backpack looks at advertisements in an estate agent window

    Soaring UK mortgage rates have pushed 320,000 adults into poverty, thinktank says

  • A woman using her mobile phone.

    Online GP consultations have led to harm and death, investigation finds

  • A graffiti sign reading 'food bank' on a wall as a man walks by

    Families affected by two-child benefit limit ‘more likely to skip meals’

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Interviews & opinion

  • Eva Wiseman

    We need more than trompe-l’oeil to fix our housing crisis

    Eva Wiseman
  • Weathered-looking white woman wearing pink and blue sunhat holds up bright orange piece of paper, with tents on green grass behind her.

    ‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision

  • Tony Sinclair, who formerly lived in a tent outside a hospital in central London

    ‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’: how a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britain

  • Marjolein Robertson standing in front of a wall hanging with colourful circular pattern.

    The period that almost killed me: ‘My mam was told, if you take her home, she won’t last the night’

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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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  • A small group of mature adults are seen running together on a sunny summer evening. They are each dressed comfortably in athletic wear and have smiles on their faces as they spur each other on.

    It doesn’t have to be a big commitment
    Your no-stress guide to throwing a successful charity fundraiser

  • Two women are surprised with birthday cakes in the office.

    Chocolate mousse cake recipe
    A workplace-proof bake from Harrods’ head pastry chef

  • Group of friends having a break in the climbing center while having coffee and tea before start the activity again.

    ‘Comfort comes from community building’
    How a Macmillan Coffee Morning can help you feel more connected

  • Macmillan Coffee Morning

    Benefits guidance to support with loneliness
    How the millions raised by Macmillan Coffee Morning help people with cancer

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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

  • man with one leg in a wheelchair

    US news
    More than 100,000 Americans with diabetes have limbs amputated each year. This is a crisis

  • Moira Donegan

    Opinion
    Unlike Joe Biden, Kamala Harris will be a genuine champion for abortion rights

    Moira Donegan
  • Tinuke Awe

    Opinion
    It’s scary to be Black and give birth in England. These are the ways the NHS is letting us down

    Tinuke Awe

  • Death by diabetes: America's preventable epidemic
    The FDA chief is right: we are failing people with diabetes

    Neil Barsky

  • Food
    The godfather of competitive eating on secrets, success and physical stress: ‘I am always close to danger or death’

  • NHS
    Pregnant women suffer racist and discriminatory abuse at NHS trust, says inquiry head

  • Poverty
    Overhaul UK benefits to tackle child poverty, charities urge

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

  • A child holding a mobile phone

    UK parents should check under-18s’ phones for nude photos, says police chief

  • A care home nurse with a resident in a wheelchair

    English councils call for further delay to social care costs cap

  • A girl wearing a white dress and angel's wings stands in a room with supernatural light coming through cracks in the ceiling.

    Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire

  • A care home worker carries a meal to a room

    Health groups call for social care minimum wage to avert staffing crisis in England

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Central & local government

  • Children with raised hands in a classroom

    £5bn debt crisis of special educational needs ‘could bankrupt’ English councils

  • Simon Case arrives at Dorland House in London: he is wearing a blue suit with a dark red tie and white shirt, and is holding a walking stick as he steps on to the pavement. He is in his mid-40s with short light brown hair, a beard, and glasses; and he is walking towards a sign that reads UK Covid-19 Inquiry

    Cabinet secretary contenders: who’s in line for top job in UK civil service?

  • A street and a high rise and a Welcome to Ladywood sign

    ‘Economic violence’: Birmingham residents decry plan to raze 1,900 homes

  • Shelf life … Amanda Giles and Terry Curran in the children’s section of Battle library, Reading. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

    ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books – podcast

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Voluntary sector

  • Ampleforth College

    Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

  • A prison officer walks across an empty landing of a prison

    Labour must avoid release of high-risk offenders in prison plans, charity warns

  • A multicoloured screenprint of Kate Moss

    Top UK auction house told to stop taking buyer’s premium for charity sales

  • Oslo 19861125 Leah Levin i Oslo for å snakke om barnearbeid. Foto: Svein E. Furulund / Aftenposten / NTB scanpix Fysisk loc. 77.00

    Leah Levin obituary

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Housing

  • Prime minister David Cameron visits a housing development in 2015.

    Rural development won’t solve Britain’s housing crisis

    • People walking past a tent pitched next to a brick wall

      Homelessness in England at highest level on record, watchdog says

    • US Home-Price Appreciation Accelerates For Fourth Month<br>A "For Sale" sign in Sacramento, California, US, on Monday, July 3, 2023. The Mortgage Bankers Association is scheduled to release mortgage applications figures on July 6. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

      US home sales fell more than expected in June amid record-high prices

    • Polly Toynbee

      A whole new community on the site of a defunct power station near Erewash? Yes, please

      Polly Toynbee
    • Small windowless room with walls and ceiling painted white. There are some chairs, a clock and a phone on a table.

      ‘Every 14-year-old boy’s dream’: Cumbrian nuclear bunker goes to auction

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