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David Duke was living rough in Glasgow after the death of his father and problems with alcohol when he saw an advert for the 2003 Homeless World Cup in Sweden. He started training and was picked for the Scotland team, which finished fourth in the com...

The DWP staff have upset a few people by publishing “highlights” of the year on Twitter. The Department for Work and Pensions claimed new strategies to help families, changes to the state pension age and examples of people finding wo...

Free school meals should be provided to all pupils from households claiming universal credit, Labour has said, as a consultation on the future of the system enters its final weeks. The shadow education secretary Angela Rayner and shadow work and pens...

'Once we have identified God as a baby born into poverty and peril, a refugee fleeing a Middle East despot, a common laborer living in occupied territory, we have to rethink everything about greatness'. Brian English

Rutger Bregman is a journalist at The Correspondent, and one of Europe's most prominent young thinkers. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics. His History of Progress was awarded the Belgian Liberales prize for best nonfic...

Next year will be an important year for ending hunger, with two important attempts by back bench MPs to take meaningful action on ending UK hunger. On January 19 there will be the second reading of Frank Field's bill on ending holiday hunger. At Chri...

A nurse who called a man with no legs a “scrounger” - while she was doing checks on whether disabled people qualified for benefits - has escaped being struck off. Foul-mouthed Rebecca Mellard said she wanted to remove the wheels from...

Thursday showed a jump in the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week, the underlying trend in jobless claims remained consistent with a tightening labor market. The strong economy and tight jobs market has led many analysts to...

A change the Tories made to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) that cut 164,000 people’s benefits was unlawful, a high court judge ruled today. A woman affected, identified only as RF, took work and pensions secretary David Gauke to court...

Timpson are helping people look their  best when times are tough so if you’re unemployed and going for an interview Timson will clean an outfit for you free of charge. This service is available from 500 Timpson locations nationwide. A grea...