Jackie Long
How WWI changed the lives of Britain’s women
They were widows. They were bereaved mothers, sisters and friends. But women in the first world war were so much more too.
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Jackie Long
Assisted dying – a right or ‘murder by physician’?
There has been no fury and no barracking – but in the House of Lords ferocity belies what is being said. The debate? The right to die.
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Jackie Long
Assisted dying – will Lord Carey’s U-turn change the debate?
With the assisted dying bill due to be debated on Friday, what impact will Lord Carey’s controversial intervention make?
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Jackie Long
PIE – trying to persuade others that child abuse was acceptable
Started in the 1970s, the Paedophile Information Exchange is a window on a world 40 years ago which may hold vital clues to today’s investigations.
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Jackie Long
How we can stop children from sexually abusing other children
8,000 children under the age of 18 have been accused of sexually abusing another child over the past two years, offences including serious sexual assault and rape.
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Jackie Long
Will the universal benefits plan have to be redrawn?
Two reports attacking major areas of the government’s planned benefits reforms suggest there may come a point when the universal credit policy has to be redrawn.
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Jackie Long
‘Threatened’ for publicising poverty: an uncharitable tale
Charities working with the poorest in society say government attitudes to their work are increasingly hostile.
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Jackie Long
Disability claims backlog brings hardship and anxiety say campaigners
This piece is not news. It’s not new. The Department for Work and Pensions told me. Four or five times. But I thought it was worth marking anyway.
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Doubts over disability figures
A complaint about Department for Work and Pensions claims about Disability Living Allowance is upheld by the UK Statistics Authority.
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Suicide of sexual abuse victim was preventable
Let down by the mental health authorities.
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Jackie Long
The unexpected costs of the ‘welfare revolution’
If the government’s “welfare revolution” is to work , then it has to work in places like Torfaen, a south Wales community where direct payments are being trialled.
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Jackie Long
Families hit hard by scrapping of council tax benefits
If you’re one of the 2.34 million low-income families who used to get council tax benefit, you’ll be paying on average £149 more in council tax this year than just over a year ago.
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Kate O’Mara dies aged 74
The former Dynasty and Howards’ Way actress dies in a nursing home after a brief illness.
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Jackie Long
Now Atos is judged unfit for fit-to-work tests, what next?
Atos is to pull out of a contract to carry out fit-to-work tests early, and will pay a financial settlement as a result. But the company clearly feels it is not the only guilty party.
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Jackie Long
Budget brings storm clouds to Port Sunlight
Port Sunlight on the Wirral lives up to its status as a model village, with wide tree lined roads and pristine gardens. That’s despite, not because of, the economy, residents say.
