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We know longer sentences do more harm than good. Let’s focus our resources on threadbare public services instead, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Gaps in contact-tracing and confused public health advice meant many infectious people not told to isolate

A new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said that efforts to correct the systemic underpayment of the State Pension are too slow as 237,000 older people have been underpaid a total of £1.46 billion

Some 19,000 cases would need to be reviewed every month to meet DWP’s resolution deadline.

The Public Accounts Committee says £8.6 billion was overpaid across benefits in 2021-22 and more must be done to get a grip on the billions of pounds being lost every year

The Department for Work and Pensions overpaid an ‘eye-watering’ £8.6 billion across benefits in 2021-22, the Public Accounts Committee said.

SEATTLE — While Washingtonians have been casting ballots and making their voices heard in Tuesday's midterm elections, some of Washington's top corporations have put their money where their interests lie.

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Orlando East, a working class community on the periphery of Johannesburg in South Africa, has turned 90 years old. Orlando was one of the first municipal locations – called townships under apartheid – established in 1932 for Africans under the 1923 Native Urban Areas Act. It was renamed Orlando East…