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Aaron Horsey says measures in Employment Rights Act will give support ‘at one of most difficult moments imaginable’A father who has fought for a change in the law so that bereaved parents can look after their babies after the death of a partner will tell his son he...
My favourite family photo: ‘We’re plainly not allergic to our mother here, as her legend always had it’
Our politically engaged mother loved deriding me and my sister for being stroppy and delinquent. This picture tells another story – and is a testament to our sunny dispositionsMy mother, Gwen, liked to describe things in broad brush strokes. Me and my sister’s teenage...
Civil society groups condemn ‘dangerous’ plans for more anti-protest powers
Dozens including TUC join force to oppose ‘wide-ranging’ move to increase police powers in England and WalesMore than 40 civil society groups including the TUC, Greenpeace and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign have joined forces to oppose “dangerous” plans to increase...
‘I’m the product of a smashed-up family’: how Sean Scully became the greatest abstract painter alive
He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that drives himWhen I ask Sean Scully what an abstract painting has over a...