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Dec 13, 2020

Is Covid undoing progress with mental health care?

Bex Wainwright wasn’t expecting to spend her first night in an inpatient psychiatric ward completely alone. But when she was admitted to...

Oct 6, 2020

Locked in, locked up, deported: UK cannabis farms

In unassuming towns and suburbs across the UK, there are houses with their windows covered, blocking out natural light. Inside,...

Sep 21, 2020

'I had to kill my family': Long covid & the brain

There were rumbles for months beforehand, but for many, the Covid-19 pandemic came out of nowhere in March, and upturned normal life...

Aug 24, 2020

Pride and edifice: a pioneering architect's conflict

After World War II, the government led a social house-building revolution that improved living standards for millions of people across...

May 26, 2020

The police were traumatised before COVID19

Sam Smith admits he was naïve when he left his job in sales to join the Hertfordshire constabulary. “You’re thrown into a job where, with...

May 19, 2020

Vauxhall Farm: The lying, the snitch & the lost hope

At the start of the year, you wouldn't have believed we'd now be in a reality where zoos and wildlife parks are talking about the...

Apr 29, 2020

Fighting coronavirus on the frontline

Richard has worked as a paramedic for 20 years. While it's always been a pressurised job, he says nothing has come close to what he’s...

Apr 29, 2020

‘Back in Africa you all slept in one room together’

For non-secure tenants, homelessness hangs over them like a constant threat. But one London borough - it's much worse.

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