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The reason governments of both left and right have taken so long to sort out Britain’s social care system comes down to one word: money. Ministers know that more cash will be needed to cope with the demands of an ageing population. They know that the current system is inadequate. They also know that a …

Last week I booked an Uber from our favourite pub to my home in north London – a trip of 1.75 miles I have taken several hundred times. I was riding with two friends whom I regularly drop off on the way. I asked the driver to use my preferred route, he refused and a …

All her life, Carole-Ann Warburton kept a little hope glowing at the back of her mind. “You’re living your life. And every now and then you think: ‘I have a dream.’” Warburton’s dream was to work in a bookshop. It took an experience of terrifying disorientation to find her way to it. In 2010, she …

Rent has climbed at its fastest rate in more than a decade, with some weekly payments up 10%, new data shows. Although the CoreLogic national rent index, released on Monday, points to some relief in the previous quarter – 3.41% in the June quarter, down from 3.55% over the March quarter and 3.73% a year …

Months of “frenzied buyer activity” have driven the average asking price for a home in Britain to a new high, according to the property website Rightmove. The property portal said it expected figures from HMRC due later this week to show that June was the busiest month on record for sales, with buyers rushing to …