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 ...

More than 11 million historical records from West Dunbartonshire, dating back as far as the 17th century, have been digitised ...

During the general election campaign of 1834 to 35, for example ... It was right to be afraid, as the introduction of a new workhouse, to which any help for the poor was to be confined, was ...

In 1834 the national attempt to deal with this ... and all who claimed relief were to be admitted into a workhouse built for the purpose. The new Unions were run by an elected Board of Guardians ...

To discourage dependency, workhouse conditions were made worse than those of the lowest standard independent labourer. The 1834 Poor Law laid down centrally every detail of the help to be given, ...

Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been forced to live a dreadful life amid the intermittent horrors of bombings and killings. After over a year of Israeli genocide in Gaza, there is now ...