The U.K. Parliament narrowly progressed a controversial bill on Tuesday evening that stands to limit access to key welfare ...

A Labour MP has slammed her own party’s “Dickensian” plans to cut welfare. In an emotional Commons speech, Rachel Maskell ...

A Labour MP has said that the government’s welfare bill will impose “Dickensian cuts” on disabled people, and that it belongs ...

Rebel Labour MPs criticize Starmer’s ‘Dickensian’ benefits cut, warning of increased poverty among disabled individuals.

Labour MP Rachael Maskell made an impassioned speech as debate opened for the controversial Welfare Bill. A vote on the bill ...

PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer’s position is on a knife-edge this evening as MPs prepare to vote on his Bill slashing ...

Labour welfare cuts 'Dickensian' and 'from another era', says rebel MP ahead of vote. Thirty-nine Labour MPs have signed a fresh amendment calling for welfare cuts to be stopped when the proposals ...

Dickensian begins on BBC1 in Christmas week but Jordan is already convinced that the project should run well beyond the initial 20 half-hours. “Dickens has 2,000 characters and I have used ...

“Dickensian diseases on the rise in Tory Britain today,” said Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour’s shadow health and social care secretary, in a statement. Ashworth blamed government spending cuts ...

Donna Tartt is a writer who takes her time — she's published just one novel per decade since her debut in 1992. But critic Maureen Corrigan says she'd gladly wait another 10 years for a book as ...

Ma’s mildly satirical novel follows 18-year-old Shelley Zheng as he navigates complicated social dynamics where nothing is as simple as it seems after moving from Gejiu, China, to San Francisco.