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5 weeks ago
My mother, Dorothea Heath, who has died aged 82, was a fashion model in the 50s; a Labour councillor in Reigate in the 60s – a rare species in true blue Surrey; and a press photographer in Wales, whose work appeared in the Guardian, Independent and Observer newspapers, from the mid-70s until 2005.[...]
29 weeks ago
The role of employment advisers is diminishing as web-based services come to the fore, but what about the personal touch?Margaret-Anne Mackenzie left school in April without any qualifications. "I didn't get any careers advice at school," the 16-year-old says. She's not alone – one in four 15- to [...]
31 weeks ago
Unemployment has risen to a rate of 8.1%, higher than forecasted. These are the unemployment benefit claimant numbers in each of the parliamentary constituencies. Get them where you live
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UPDATE: now includes latest youth unemployment figuresThe number of unemployed in the [...]
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UPDATE: now includes latest youth unemployment figuresThe number of unemployed in the [...]
34 weeks ago
Poll shows 28% of those studying apprenticeships, BTecs and GNVQs are missing out on careers counsellingA quarter of teenagers say they have never received any careers advice, according to a poll.The survey of 1,620 15- to 19-year-olds found those on vocational courses were least likely to have been[...]
34 weeks ago
Poll shows 28% of those studying apprenticeships, BTecs and GNVQs are missing out on careers counsellingA quarter of teenagers say they have never received any careers advice, according to a poll.The survey of 1,620 15- to 19-year-olds found those on vocational courses were least likely to have been[...]
39 weeks ago
When people are rightly angry it's the duty of the courts to punish more severely – but not to do as the government tells themNational revulsion and popular demand for punishment are dangerous things. They licensed the rule-bending that miscarried justice in the 80s, for the Birmingham Six and Gui[...]
60 weeks ago
MPs and the media hardly notice working-class communities. It's time the labour movement gave them back their voiceI met Mrs Parry a few months ago in the centre of Ashington, a 27,000-strong community about 17 miles north of Newcastle. Once the world's biggest mining village, thousands were thrown [...]
75 weeks ago
Extra funds meant more university places. The real issue now is cuts to education maintenance grantsEd Miliband will on Thursday lead Labour MPs into the Commons division lobbies against proposals to treble student fees. "No party with a deep and genuine commitment to social mobility could support t[...]
77 weeks ago
Comedian who helped to raise awareness of bipolar disorderThe comedian Mackenzie Taylor, who has been found dead aged 32, did much to demystify his bipolar schizoaffective disorder with a show at the 2009 Edinburgh festival fringe. The show, which drew upon Mackenzie's suicide attempt the previ[...]
78 weeks ago
The axing of the education maintenance allowance to help poor teenagers stay at school feels like targeted government maliceNever had it so good? If only Lord Young was in the hall with the pupils of BSix Sixth Form College in Clapton, a poor part of Hackney, east London. Life for them is about to g[...]
79 weeks ago
Marijuana legalisation supporters had high hopes, yet Prop 19 went up in smoke. Then again, pot is already so easy to getAfter months of riding high, support for Proposition 19, the ballot initiative that would have legalised marijuana in the state of California, evaporated in the final weeks before[...]
81 weeks ago
This vote is a good moment to reflect that the US spends $1,400 a second fighting the drugs trade – with no discernible effectIt is now evident that the "war on drugs" is not a metaphor: in the Andean Ridge and Mexico, as well as in West Africa and Central Asia, it has become a militarised crusade[...]
83 weeks ago
What's happening in Chile now is not far removed from the UK miners' strike of 1984One hole, 33 aces. The Chilean miners' rescue is a Great Story. Quote of the saga – so far – goes to Chile's mining minister, Laurence Golborne. When asked a couple of days ago, by a reporter, "How are the mine[...]
101 weeks ago
IIED says rich nations are double-counting cash and raiding existing budgets to 'wriggle out' of £21bn aid promise
• Rich nations accused over 'logging loophole'
• Bonn climate talks diaryRich countries will raid existing aid budgets, double-count promises and convert grants to [...]
• Rich nations accused over 'logging loophole'
• Bonn climate talks diaryRich countries will raid existing aid budgets, double-count promises and convert grants to [...]
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