Society
Half of people recently arrested by Met police may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds
December 10, 2025Half of people arrested recently in London were found to potentially have undiagnosed ADHD, according to a study calling for better neurodivergence screening for vulnerable individuals. Research by the University of Cambridge found that one in two individuals arrested and detained over an eight-week period in London in 2024 may have undiagnosed attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder […]
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UK MPs push for extra aid and visas as Jamaica reels from Hurricane Melissa
November 29, 2025British MPs have joined campaigners calling for more aid and humanitarian visas for Jamaicans to enter the UK after Hurricane Melissa demolished parts of the country, plunging hundreds of thousands of people into a humanitarian crisis. The UK has pledged £7.5m emergency funds to Jamaica and other islands affected by the hurricane, but many argue […]
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‘I’d run down the road thinking I was God’: a day at the cannabis psychosis clinic
November 16, 2025It’s two years since Isiah found himself on the roof of a south London shopping centre, about to jump. “I was very done,” he says of that night in November 2023. “It felt there was no other route or option. First, I did a walk around everywhere important to me: primary school, secondary, college.” Then […]
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Marianne Rigge obituary
November 12, 2025My wife, Marianne Rigge, who has died aged 77, was a passionate public advocate for the interests of NHS patients, and a pioneer in creating ways of giving people easier access to medical and health information. The daughter of a GP, she founded a national charity, the College of Health, with the renowned social entrepreneur […]
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Sex offender freed from Wandsworth prison by mistake is back in custody
November 7, 2025A convicted sex offender who was released from prison by mistake a week ago is back in custody. Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, from Algeria, was accidentally freed on 29 October from Wandsworth prison in south London. He was arrested in Finsbury Park, north London, on Friday after police said they had received a call from a […]
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NHS to take over state-of-the-art hospital from private health group in ‘windfall’
November 7, 2025An NHS trust is taking over a state-of-the-art hospital from a leading private healthcare group after it failed to attract enough paying patients to use it. Barts Health trust in London will turn Nuffield Health’s facility into a dedicated NHS breast cancer diagnosis and treatment centre when it gains control next month. The not-for-profit private […]
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UK man who murdered pregnant girlfriend after release from prison jailed for 42 years
October 31, 2025A man who murdered his pregnant girlfriend after being released from prison on licence has been jailed for 42 years. Alana Odysseos, 32, was in the early stages of pregnancy with her third child when she was killed by Shaine March last year at her home in Walthamstow, east London. She died at the scene […]
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The crimewave sweeping Britain? Illegal houses in multiple occupation | Aditya Chakrabortty
October 24, 2025Fan of true crime? Then this column is for you. Rather than some cold case told through yellowing newspapers and sepia photos, this one is still happening. And just wait for the plot twist! But first let me outline the key facts; your challenge is to decide who’s guilty. Our crime scene is a redbrick […]
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Don’t cut London’s affordable housing quotas, Labour MPs urge ministers and mayor
October 20, 2025Labour MPs are urging ministers and the London mayor to drop controversial plans to reduce affordable housing quotas in the capital in order to boost homebuilding. MPs have said they are concerned about the proposals being drawn up by the housing secretary, Steve Reed, and the mayor, Sadiq Khan, in response to a sudden drop […]
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Will affordable housing be the casualty as London tackles its building emergency?
October 20, 2025Sadiq Khan has known for a while that he has a problem with housebuilding in London. But last week a consultancy published figures about the scale of the problem, which prompted full-scale alarm in City Hall and Whitehall. The analysis from Molior showed that new housebuilding in the capital had collapsed. Only 40,000 homes are […]
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