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Progress in closing the gender pay gap has been slow – recent reports suggest that in some companies it is actually widening. This affects...
A recurring theme in coverage of Theresa May’s prime ministership has been how robotic and not-human she seems. Political cartoonists love to...
Less than a fortnight after a BBC film crew was attacked at a Donald Trump rally, the corporation’s studios in Salford are set this weekend to be...
Some weeks ago, in a bid to counter the bleakness of January, I bought some cheap cava, rang a few friends and declared a party. All was going...
We humans have always had something to be terrified about, even if it has no basis in reality. In the 60s the big scare was that aliens were coming...
We are on the cusp of redefining feminism but our biggest stumbling block is the internalised misogyny women still have to work through....
Later today MPs will debate a future trade deal with the United States. In a speech to the National Farmers Union earlier this week,...
In 2016, the populists shook politics to its core, disrupting the technocracy and leaving the old centre ground establishment reeling. This year,...
They say love conquers all, but even Cupid has an Achilles Heel: money. Who should pay for what, and how do you split the expenses that benefit one...
It is not often that one is privileged to be party to a whole new policy before it is rolled out. That expression, rolled out, by the way, is very...
Don’t @ me, but there’s a chance I may have invented binge watching a good decade before it became an actual pastime. During a particularly...
In our mid-twenties, my boyfriend and I found ourselves in a very modern dilemma. He had some money for a deposit on a flat. I had just about...
When I became Education Secretary, I spent my first weekend in post asking everyone I met what they wanted for their children. Invariably the...
In the early hours of 24 June 2016, the final ballots from constituencies across the UK began to roll in, each result making it clearer Britain had...
Dear Sirs – sorry, I mean Dear Readers, I am pleased to announce that a local newspaper will be dropping the traditional “Sir” from its letters...
Like most artisan food, there’s a romanticism to raw milk. Udder to pale might be the dairy sector’s version of farm to fork – that...
Tamsin McBride, 48, is a business owner who lives in Cornwall with her husband Jake and their two children. Here she talks to Poorna Bell about...
The number of renters is growing in Britain. By 2025 a quarter of all households are expected to rent from a private landlord, with slightly more...
There’s a crushing inevitability to the fact that the last man standing in the bloody detritus of Isil’s failed state is a young woman. In all...
Before becoming an MP, I was a social worker in Stockport working with vulnerable children and families. I have always been driven by a passion to...
In his novel Sybil, published in 1845, Benjamin Disraeli described England as “two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy;...
Last week The Times revealed that Shamima Begum – one of the Bethnal Green girls who escaped the country in 2015 to join Isis – currently...
This refuse collector, who has asked to remain anonymous, has worked for Birmingham City Council for six years and is currently on the picket line...
Hosting the Brit Awards is a notoriously tough gig. The pressure of the live broadcast on ITV combined with the unpredictability of drunken...
JONT. It’s an acronym I just made up, but it’s a sentiment I’m sure many people will be familiar with: the Joy of New Things. For me, it...
I’m not plugged in to the Westminster Geiger counter, but this does not feel like an earthquake to me. The tremors caused by the defection of...
Last week The Times revealed that Shamima Begum – one of the Bethnal Green girls who escaped the country in 2015 to join Isis – currently...
A small faction of hardline MPs who wield a disproportionate amount of power over a beleaguered prime minister. Aware of their ability to bring...
The Devil works hard, but Kris Jenner works harder. For those of you who aren’t aware: the matriarch of the Jenner/Kardashian clan also acts...
Skin is our largest organ and something we may take for granted when it’s healthy. As an academic dermatologist I frequently hear misleading...
I remember exactly where I was when I first encountered Alan Partridge. I was driving over Waterloo Bridge on my way home from work in the winter...