Labour prime minister Keir Starmer wants to disguise his government’s attacks on disabled people as an ethical campaign.

Starmer’s slash-and-burn approach to disability benefits represents a fundamental break with Labour’s founding mission to ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

A discussion of the abuses of children and other vulnerable groups in Victorian workhouses may help understand the schemes of Israeli settler colonialism and the logic of its domination and ...

With the Helsinki Biennial in full swing, a generation of young artists on the rise and a clutch of new and revamped museums opening their doors, the Finnish capital is attracting lovers of art and ...

Edwin Chadwick was one of the architects of the 1834 Poor Law, which was based on the principle that making the provision of poor relief so unpleasant would put off all but the most desperate. Whilst ...