December 2018

Households paid an extra £75 a year in wake of vote which experts warn has been ‘principal factor’ driving up bills over past two years Via: Brexit added £2bn to UK energy bills in year after referendum, report claims

‘Incredibly distressing’ cries of newborn children can be heard in four out of 10 maternity unit bereavement rooms Via: Parents grieving their dead newborns let down by patchy NHS support, major review warns

Reform campaigners call for re-think in sentencing as Britain falls ‘out of kilter’ with rest of the world Via: UK has highest number of life sentence prisoners in Europe, study finds

The Doctor’s actions in Sheffield come back to haunt her as the team answers distress calls from an unknown planet in a slightly underwhelming season finaleAll’s well that ends well, hey? We wouldn’t expect anything other than for a Doctor Who series finale to end on a rush of life-affirming Read more

You can be friends with your postman or your drug dealer, really. It’s just not the sameI remember meeting her so vividly that it’s a bit embarrassing. It seems creepy to remember meeting someone in such precise detail – unless you’re marrying them or trying to implicate them in a Read more

The artist has battled surveillance, underground exile and even irate Berlin taxi drivers. He thinks the world has forgotten what human rights mean, which is why he has designed a new flag The wallpaper image on Ai Weiwei’s mobile phone is a black and white photograph showing the entrance to Read more

Law Commission backs move that would offer alternative to landlord-controlled leaseholdsThe rarely used “commonhold” system of home ownership should be expanded as an alternative to landlord-controlled leaseholds which are increasingly resented, the Law Commission is recommending.In a public consultation launched on Monday, the government’s official adviser on law reform is Read more