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2 months ago |
unherd.com | Darren McGarvey
Chronic IllnessDisabilityKeir StarmerLabourPoliticsUKWelfare What do you do if your government is struggling in the polls and you need an easy win? Liz Kendall knows. You target the “welfare scroungers”. If you have a distaste for the feckless, the undeserving poor and the work-shy, then her plan will be right up your benefits street.
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Dec 22, 2024 |
unherd.com | Darren McGarvey
ChristmaselderlyLonelinessSocietyUK Christmas is a chance to end a miserable year on a high. That means raucous office piss-ups, anarchic family get-togethers, and impish toddlers greedily unpacking their stockings. Not so for our elderly, though. A shocking number spend the festive season entirely alone. Christmas simply serves as a painful reminder of past happiness and companionship as the spectre of death looms ever larger.
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Oct 25, 2024 |
unherd.com | Darren McGarvey
Drug consumption roomsDrugsglasgowHeroinPoliticsScotlandUK Tourists emerging from Glasgow’s Central Station onto Gordon Street are immediately confronted with a scene familiar to every Glaswegian: cold air, tornadoes of litter, and the visible overlap of the city’s drug and homelessness crises. To the right, a group huddles around a beggar, exchanging stories about the latest blue-light drama, giving the encounter an oddly social feel. Across the street, two rough sleepers sit outside a...
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Oct 10, 2024 |
unherd.com | Darren McGarvey
Keir StarmerLabour PartyMorgan McSweeneyPoliticssue grayUK Keir Starmer’s premiership is well and truly goosed.
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Sep 10, 2024 |
unherd.com | Darren McGarvey
Creative ScotlandCultureculture warThe ArtsUK Those London theatre lovers living south of Watford might not have noticed, but Scotland’s small but lively cultural sphere has recently become the latest contested territory in the UK’s unrelenting culture wars.
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