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It used to be fairly easy to get work that paid at or around the minimum wage. But with a shrinking number of positions come ever more hoops to jump through, from personality tests, to trial shifts, to towers constructed of marshmallowsIt is 10.30am, and Zahra is...
Starmer urged to stick to manifesto following reports lifting of youth minimum wage may be delayed – UK politics live
GMB union tells Labour delaying or halting equalisation to adult rates would be unacceptableGood morning. Figures out yesterday showed that the unemployment rate for 18- to 24-year-olds was 14% in the three months to December, which is the highest rate for nearly 11...
Calls grow for suicides linked to domestic abuse to be treated as potential homicides
Politicians and experts say police should be better trained and move away from ‘tickbox approach’ to suicidesPoliticians and experts have thrown their weight behind calls for suicides to be investigated as potential homicides in cases where a person who takes their...
‘Populism’: we used to know what it meant. Now the defining word of our era has lost its meaning | Oliver Eagleton
In the 2010s it described an insurgent rhetorical style; in the 2020s it is inadequate to account for the wildly diverging fates of the left and right“Populism” may well have been the defining word of the previous decade: a shorthand for the insurgent parties that...