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Articles Written by: YVONNE ROBERTS
Frank Whipple, who is 101, and still looks after his daughter Peggy who has special needs at their home in east London. Photograph: David Levene
Frank Whipple and his daughter Peggy sit side by side at the kitchen table at their home in the East End of ...
The strange jig around the matter of assisted suicide continues. Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, has published interim guidelines that are open for consultation. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Starmer says:
We are proud of the way ...
From YVONNE ROBERTS,
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23 Sep 2009
Means-testing child benefit would be a disaster. It would acquire the stigma of poverty without effectively relieving the poor
It's hard not to conclude that if there were more women at a senior level in all three political parties, child benefit would ...
From YVONNE ROBERTS,
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19 Sep 2009
We don't read much about poverty in the media, except for the sporadic cases of gargantuan families, preferably foreign, living in Dallas-style splendour on the state, avoiding all labour – unless of course it's black market labour.
In truth, the ...
From YVONNE ROBERTS,
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11 Sep 2009
Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour party and, for now, in charge while the boss is away, has a habit that frustrates her allies and enrages her enemies: her foot always seems more comfortable in her mouth. In the fuss over whatever Hattie has ...
If the aim is truly to create a National Care Service, one word is conspicuously missing from the so-called Big Care Debate launched by the health secretary Andy Burnham – "tax". Under the three proposals for funding, the result will be a deeply unfair ...
From YVONNE ROBERTS,
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15 Jul 2009
All of this makes one of the Tories' solutions to what they see as "Broken Britain" look even more ridiculous. According to the Daily Mail, the battle lines between Conservative and Labour are drawn up for the general election – at least when it comes ...
From YVONNE ROBERTS,
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9 Jul 2009
Yvette Cooper, the work and pensions secretary, has seen off her predecessor, James Purnell, by showing a little empathy and common sense and probably adding a large dollop of her own experience, attempting to balance work with four children, and ...
From YVONNE ROBERTS,
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6 Jul 2009
Shoppers in 20 Tesco shops around the country will find themselves in the middle of a casbah of voluntary organisations when they attempt to buy their seven ounces of salami at the meat counter this weekend. Tesco's community champions, who invite ...
From YVONNE ROBERTS,
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28 Jun 2009
Nobody, it seems, likes a swot, especially a "demure looking" female clever clogs, "a one-woman knowledge factory". Blatant misogyny and class irritation are not the only reasons why Gail Trimble has drawn flak for winning more points than anyone else ...
