Unravelling the components of couples’ incomes and investigating individual trajectories over the life course are essential to produce a more rounded and complete picture of the links between gender and poverty, says Fran Bennett.
“What’s interesting about our lives?” The process of creating a play from nine women’s testimonies shows we are living in a two hundred year present, where bearing witness is the most powerful gift we can offer.
Powers intended to tackle gang-related violence are ruining the lives of young people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time
Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement has formed an alliance in the European Parliament with Nigel Farage's UKIP. We should have seen this coming.
• For almost an hour after Steve Ham was found unresponsive, G4S guards failed to call an ambulance• Panic, inexperience, understaffing and lack of transparency exposed at UK's flagship private prison• “An excellent model for the future of the Prison Service,” said justice minister Chris Grayling
The suffrage movement was split by the Great War. Most often remembered are the pacifists. But the militant history of feminist war supporters in Britain, and the audacity of the 'White Feather Girls' who shamed young men into enlisting, must also be remembered in this centenary year
Today's Sunday Comic urges us to be aware of the deception inherent in state lotteries.
• Home Office contractors agree “significant” financial settlement• 77 year old locum doctor did not know detention centre rules• Brian Dalrymple, a 35 year old American tourist, died of natural causes; neglect was a contributing factor• Mother pays tribute to “warm and loving man”
Doctor who saw the American tourist before his death knew neither mental health law nor detention centre rules
It is hard to see the British Government's resistance to implementing UNSCR 1325 as anything other than denying women and girls their rightful place in post-conflict Northern Ireland. Women in Northern Ireland argue that their full participation at all levels of decision-making is crucial to peace
A former director of BBC News on the cosy relationships between UK politicians and the press
