‘Deepfake porn’ is on the rise. Sienna Rodgers meets the women fighting to criminalise the creation of non-consensual intimate images

Twenty years after the Hunting Act was introduced, and 100 years after its formation, the League Against Cruel Sports is still calling for an end to blood sports in the UK

Over 1.5m families are taking out loans to pay for presents like celebrations like Christmas and birthdays, new research shared with PoliticsHome shows.

The Cass Review into NHS gender services for children opened up the national conversation on this controversial subject, and divided opinion. Its author, Baroness Cass, speaks to Tali Fraser about being newly introduced as a peer and how she responds to critics. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer

When a coroner concluded that social media had played a more than considerable part in the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell, it caused global shockwaves.

Josh MacAlister wants children to spend less time on their phones and far fewer of them in residential care. The former teacher tells Tali Fraser his experience of working across party lines is helping build support. Photography by Elio Zhang

Following the successful second reading of the Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill in Parliament on November 29, the British Veterinary Association (BVA) emphasises the critical need to address puppy smuggling—a growing issue that poses significant risks to animal welfare, public health, and responsible pet ownership.

Aged 15, Jade was moved to a children’s home. Instead of finding her somewhere nearby in London, Jade’s local authority placed her in Lancashire, 250 miles away from everyone she knew. What was initially meant to be a two-week placement lasted two years, she told ITV.

When I was a teenager, I pleaded with my doctors to let me die. Hospitalised against my will for months with anorexia, chronically depressed and hopeless about my future, I was desperate to end my life. If assisted dying had been a legal option, I would have insisted on it.

As a former deputy headteacher, with over 25 years’ experience working in state schools with many students from disadvantaged backgrounds, I know first-hand the impact of funding disparities across our education system.

Nearly three decades after the landmark Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Britain has witnessed a remarkable transformation in the lives of at least some disabled people.

Sienna Rodgers talks to Labour MP Kim Leadbeater about why she chose assisted dying as the subject of her bill – and how she responds to its critics

Parliamentary experts have predicted that Keir Starmer will be forced to give MPs more time to debate the issue of assisted dying if the bill looking legalise it passes next week.

A year since the groundbreaking Online Safety Act became law, the risks children face online seem to be worse than ever. From AI child abuse images to sophisticated ‘sextortion’ gangs and addictive algorithms, the pace of technology, and those who seek to exploit it, has overtaken the shift towards safety.

A group of Lords are pushing the Government to go further in reforming English football by preventing club owners from moving stadiums away from their original locations without fans' consent. 

A new Labour MP has said society no longer encourages men to be “gentlemen” and he believed “old-school traditional values” should be re-established around positive masculinity.

Exclusive: Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has said she is “disappointed” by Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s comments on her assisted dying bill.

As the government considers whether to overhaul UK surrogacy law, Sienna Rodgers and Sophie Church explore the ethical and practical questions around reform – and the political backlash that could follow

Doubts have been cast over the Law Commission’s recommendation for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to be the UK surrogacy regulator, PoliticsHome can reveal.

As MPs prepare to vote on assisted dying, Sienna Rodgers talks to barrister Alex Ruck Keene KC who emerged from working on a landmark case with a list of pressing questions

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has promised that her bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults will have the “strictest protections and safeguards of any legislation anywhere in the world”, PoliticsHome can reveal.

My decision to introduce a bill offering choice at the end of life for terminally ill adults was not taken lightly.

It is now six years since the redevelopment of the charity Veterans Aid's New Belvedere House 'hostel' was completed – a facility that has broken the mould in terms of transforming homeless veterans’ lives. At a time when so many aspects of social care and wellbeing are under pressure CEO Professor Hugh Milroy asks why standout successes are often overlooked – particularly when their effectiveness has clear implications for the future.

In an occasional series, Professor Philip Cowley offers a political science lesson for The House’s readers. This week: newbies