21 h. ago LIZZY BUCHAN: 'Labour drama sparks unease among the party's union backers'

Leading trade unionists arrived in Brighton for the TUC Congress grappling with the hangover from Labour's tricky first year - and spooked by Angela Rayner's resignation

Events

2 d. ago ‘If something goes wrong in childbirth, how will I know?’ The unflinching film about parenting with deafness

Giving birth is gruelling enough for mothers with hearing – but as the sisters behind gripping new drama Deaf explain, for disabled women labour can be brutal and traumaticEva Libertad spent months researching the script of Deaf, speaking to deaf women about pregnancy and parenthood for her drama about motherhood and identity. Almost immediately, the Spanish director knew the film needed a labour scene. “For all the women, giving birth had been a very traumatic event,” she says. She heard stories about women in labour not being informed of procedures, or having their hearing partners removed from the room, depriving them of an interpreter as well as support. “I left out some of the most difficult experiences.”Her film gives us a frighteningly realistic birth scene. “Push, push hard,” shouts a doctor behind a face mask at the end of a long, drawn-out labour. The woman giving birth is Ángela, who is deaf and can’t read the doctor’s lips because of their face mask. Frightened and alone...

Society

5 d. ago LIZZY BUCHAN: Angela Rayner's departure leaves a headache for Keir Starmer

The row over Angela Rayner's tax affairs was the last thing Keir Starmer needed as he sought to reset his Government - and the problems aren't over for the Prime Minister

Politics

7 d. ago LIZZY BUCHAN: Angela Rayner's future is one of Keir Starmer's most difficult tests yet

'Angela Rayner has faced endless attacks from the right but revelations about her tax affairs are more than political mud-slinging and won't be easily shaken off', writes Mirror Political Editor Lizzy Buchan

Politics

9 d. ago Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky

From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianismIn 1937, Joseph Stalin commissioned a sweeping census of the Soviet Union. The data reflected some uncomfortable facts – in particular, the dampening of population growth in areas devastated by the 1933 famine – and so Stalin’s government suppressed the release of the survey results. Several high-level government statistical workers responsible for the census were subsequently imprisoned and apparently executed. Though the Soviet authorities would proudly trumpet national statistics that glorified the USSR’s achievements, any numbers that did not fit the preferred narrative were buried.A few weeks ago, following the release of “disappointing” jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Donald Trump fired the commissioner of labor statistics, Dr Erika McEntarfer, and claimed the numbers were “rigged”. He also announced his intention to commission a...

Politics

1 week ago Voices: How did we ever doubt that the Queen was a Remainer at heart?

The revelation that Elizabeth II wanted the United Kingdom to stay in the European Union – despite a particularly lurid tabloid headline during the Brexit referendum campaign to the contrary – will come as little surprise to those who knew Her Majesty, says Harry Mount

Politics