We have a Victorian attitude to child offenders. It is harmful to them – and, when they reoffend, damaging to everyone
Kirsty Brimelow KC is chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales
It is said tha…
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Woman kept in ‘Dickensian’ servitude for 25 years speaks out as abuser jailed ⊖⊖
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Amanda Wixon, 56, sentenced to 13 years for keeping victim imprisoned at home in Gloucestershire since 1990s
‘She didn’t want me to hug her’: carer of enslaved woman describes her recovery
A woman impr…
Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester review – a battle between millennials and boomers ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
There are sharply observed pleasures to be found in this black comedy of infidelity, revenge and intergenerational tension – but the plot is both implausible and predictable
John Lanchester has distin…
From Mulder and Scully to Marge and Homer: your favourite TV couples ⊕
Slow-burn office crushes that left you weeping, sitcoms that made you fall in love and vampire shows that changed you for ever: Guardian readers pick their ultimate television romances
A mark of a tru…
5 months ago
Fans rejoice as 'masterful' period drama returns to screens with a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and rave reviews ⊕
A Dickensian period drama that's been hailed as 'masterful' has returned for a second season - and it has an unbelievable 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.
7 months ago
Poem of the week: Down on the canal on Christmas Day by Chris McCabe ⊖
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A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism
Down on the canal on Christmas Day
Down on the canal on Christmas Day
a man walks towards…
10 months ago
Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown ○
Homes without heating, bedrooms with beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisive
Run-down housing estates in Britain’s former industrial heartla…
12 months ago
Why is Labour so afraid to admit that we must tax the rich to help the poor? | Andy Beckett ○
There have been modest redistributive reforms, but the party of the workers still daren’t admit that Britain’s rampant inequality needs to be addressed
After 125 years of practice, Labour ought to be …
Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’ ○
Children’s commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit cap
Children in England are living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty” where deprivation ha…
Labour rebel criticises ‘Dickensian’ welfare cuts as MPs debate bill ahead of vote – UK politics live ○
MPs are debating the universal credit and Pip bill as Lindsay Hoyle says he has selected amendment tabled by Rachael Maskell
Compass, the leftwing group urging Labour to be more pluralistic, has put o…