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Other lives: Professor of transport studies who helped make Britain’s roads safer

One of two black members of Great Britain’s team at the 1920 Games, the barrister was a popular figure and true champion

There has been a surge in cases of scabies and measles – both highly contagious – as well as rickets and scurvy, conditions we thought had been eradicated. Are public health cuts to blame?

Two priorities are tackling entrenched inequalities and – the biggest challenge – addressing the climate crisis

The double whammy of byelection humiliations for the Tories matters more than Labour’s horror show in Rochdale

A new review of post-Covid social research has revealed how much society has changed since the pandemic – and in unexpected ways

Years of austerity, followed by Covid, have left Britain with unhealthy workers and businesses struggling to recruit, but the road to recovery, of all kinds, will be long

Tropes in a Labour meeting, antisemitism incidents up 589% – try to imagine what it is like to be Jewish in Britain right now, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The statistics do not lie. Antisemitic incidents in Britain are at an all-time recorded high. The annual report from the Community Security Trust released yesterday made for depressing reading, showing that in the forty years of collecting data, there has never been a larger total. In 2023, 4,103 incidents were…