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PIP assessment process is 'dehumanising' and 'degrading', government's Timms Review finds

The government has published the first part of the Timms Review into the PIP assessment process. Here's what it found.
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YouTuber and economist Gary Stevenson: 'If we don’t tax wealth we'll return to the feudal age'

We could be on the cusp of great change. No, not that one. Much too obvious. When Gary Stevenson, creator of the popular Gary’s Economics YouTube channel, drops into the Big Issue office in London, ...
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Angela Rayner: ‘Westminster’s one-size-fits-all approach won’t fix homelessness'

Angela Rayner explains what went wrong for Keir Starmer's government and why Andy Burnham shows devolution is key to tackling ...
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Big Issue vendors given free sunscreen as temperatures soar

As outdoor workers face 60% higher skin cancer risk, DIC is supplying sunscreen to Big Issue vendors in Summer Support Kits.
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Just two out of every 100 rental homes are affordable on housing benefit: ‘An impossible situation’

Housing benefit claimants can afford fewer than two of every 100 homes on the private rented market as frozen local housing allowance rates no longer reflect the cost of renting, new research has ...
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Jinkx Monsoon: ‘Billionaires have no one to blame but themselves if they’re hated’

Jinkx Monsoon was going to name her new comedy and concert tour ‘Dear Straight People’ until she got a call from a fellow winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race. “Bob the Drag Queen said to me, ‘You’re stupid ...