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Inside the Dignitas house

The room at the Dignitas house, near Zurich, in which people end their lives. Photograph: David Levene Ludwig Minelli is explaining the best techniques for an efficient suicide when the doorbell goes and he pauses to answer via an intercom. It is ...

From AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  17 Nov 2009

Brown to tackle chaotic families

A London teenager wearing a hoodie, seen by some as the uniform of anti-social behaviour. Photograph: Alex Segre / Rex Features A few weeks before he became prime minister, Gordon Brown made a low-key visit to a block of flats in a deprived suburb of ...

From AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Home Office

Men want more time with their children

A new EHRC report suggests that working fathers want to spend more time with their children, too. Photograph: Avatra images / Alamy Working fathers are struggling to juggle the competing demands of family and career, according to a report that shows ...

From AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Equality and Human Rights Commission,  Liberal Democrats,  Nick Clegg

Can we trust the Tories on inequality?

Towards the end of his conference speech, Conservative leader David Cameron began jabbing the podium in anger and his tone became indignant. "Excuse me? Who made the poorest poorer? Who left youth unemployment higher? Who made inequality greater?" he ...

From AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Comment Is Free,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  David Cameron,  Eric Pickles,  Iain Duncan Smith

What would the Conservatives do for society?

Under the Tories, SureStart services will be targeted at the most deprived. Photograph: Alex Segre/Rex Features Over the last few years, Conservative strategists have been working to rebrand themselves from (in Theresa May's words) the "nasty party" to ...

From AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Iain Duncan Smith,  Tim Loughton,  UK Conservative Party,  Theresa May,  Eric Pickles

A new public services: 'Save Sure Start'

Sue Crowe, a mother of three, is a passionate supporter of the Sure Start facilities that opened in the north Cornwall town of Camborne in 2001. Since the Trevu centre was launched in a disused girls' school, she has been a regular user, attending ...

From AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  6 Oct 2009

The eternal optimists

A probation officer carries our risk assessment while interviewing an offender. Photograph: Matthew Ford/PCA In a fortnight's time, Sean H, 37, a violent man suffering intermittently from hallucinations and delusions, will be released from prison. Once ...

From AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David McCallum,  Ford Motor Company

Charity calls for enhanced foster care

Radical reform of the fostering system is needed if the poor prospects for tens of thousands of children living in care are to be improved, a report from the UK's leading fostering charity will say on Wednesday. The Fostering Network report calls for ...

From AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  29 Sep 2009

Concern over young mothers plan

The prospect of supervised homes for teenage mothers was one of the most eye-catching policy announcements Gordon Brown made in his speech, but the absence of any clear detail about how the commitment would be implemented triggered unease from ...

From AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Gordon Brown

PM's new pledges on teenage pregnancy

"And I do think it's time to address a problem that for too long has gone unspoken, the number of children having children. For it cannot be right, for a girl of 16, to get pregnant, be given the keys to a council flat and be left on her own. "From now ...

From AMELIA GENTLEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Gordon Brown

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