9 h. ago I've forked out £20,000 on renovating my ordinary 1930s house

I've paid thousands for advice to get planning permission, for a householder application, a planning portal processing fee - the list goes on.

Economics

1 week ago We bought an old, draughty house: How much will it cost to insulate it?

We will soon be moving into a three-bedroom semi-detached house built in the late 1930s. What are the options for reducing our energy bills?

Politics

1 week ago From homework to housework, how British attitudes have changed since the 1930s

Study shows women today are happier being women – but getting up to go to work remains as punishing as everThe mundane tasks of everyday life, such as homework after school and household chores at the weekend, may not have changed in the past 80 years, but societal attitudes towards them could not be more different.A study by the Policy Institute at King’s College London (KCL), comparing public attitudes now and in the 1930s and 40s, reveals how significantly views on everyday life in Britain have shifted over the decades. Continue reading...

Society

2 w. ago Where the streets have no shame! Families blast embarrassing town square after council painted it custard yellow

Warwickshire County Council forked out £42,000 repainting the public space in picturesque Kenilworth in a bid to 'renew and refresh' the area.

Politics

2 w. ago Ayrshire's councils fork out replacing more than 15,000 damaged and missing wheelie bins

Figures released under Freedom of Information laws found that Ayrshire's councils replaced more than 15,000 wheelie bins in 2024.

Events

3 w. ago My insurer left me with a £10,000 bill for air ambulance mountain rescue I didn't even need: SALLY SORTS IT

Last July, I had a medical incident while on holiday in Austria. I forked out £10,000 of my own funds to settle the bills, but had little meaningful contact with the insurer. Please help.

Economics

3 w. ago Liam Gallagher 'forks out £1,000 an hour for top celebrity lawyer' to fight ongoing love child court case

According to reports, the Oasis star, 52, has hired Judith Poller, who has earned the nickname 'Hollywood's top troubleshooter'.

Society

4 w. ago My life in class limbo: am I working class or insufferably bourgeois?

I have two degrees, two books to my name and I write for the Guardian. Yet I spent time in care, live at home and struggle for money. Can Karl Marx help me make sense of myself?I have been obsessed with and confused by social class all my life. Both of my grandparents grew up in Liverpool in the 1930s in traditionally working-class households. They were clever and conscientious and managed to earn scholarships to university, eventually becoming teachers. My parents have university degrees and own property; one of them is now a judge. To most people, all these things place me squarely and categorically in the middle class. But I was in special educational schools from the age of nine, spent part of my childhood in care, left education altogether at 14 and collected the dole until getting my first job in a cotton mill. All these things make me a dyed-in-the-wool prole.And yet I have two degrees, I have written two books and I freelance for the Guardian – you can’t get m...

Politics