Poverty is a war we’re still fighting

The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind

Beveridge is alive and living in modern Britain. Not the man, but the social problems he identified, known as his five giants: idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want. It was Sir William Beveri

Pick of the week’s correspondence

This looks amazing. Love it!! @marianfmoratinos Add it up I saw the figure you need to live in dignity [Issue 1685, 22-28 September]. I have never earned half the amount needed, let alone £30,000. (Th

This year marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War. The conflict is rapidly fading from living memory as the last survivors die, and 2025 has seen the final surviving Battle of Britain pil

Ellie Bryan was 30 years old when her world fell apart. She’d just had her baby son, Theodore, but within a week she found herself evicted from the home she lived in with her daughter, Amelia, now sev