PROFESSOR LINDA GASK spoke to Ruth Hunt from her home in Orkney about her new book, Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change

RUTH F HUNT recommends a collection of short stories that transform poverty into something that’s often tender and profound

Could the overstretched system for mental health service users be supplemented by day centres? RUTH HUNT considers the options

As concerns are being expressed about police involvement in drawing up and delivering mental health crisis plans, RUTH HUNT looks at the troubling facts

Chronic-pain patients are worried about new guidelines that are re-categorising their conditions and potentially limiting their access to vital treatments, reports RUTH HUNT

There are no ethical or clinical benefits from threatening or proceeding with legal measures against mental health patients, but with cuts to our services it is becoming all too common, writes RUTH HUNT

RUTH HUNT looks at the problems for those whose mental-health requirements were exacerbated by the pandemic — and as it comes to a close, whether there is a possibility of a better way forward, spearheaded by innovative approaches and a new sense of social solidarity

We may clap for the NHS, who are visible, but homecare workers are largely unseen and are not given the basic essentials they require for the challenging tasks they find inside the houses and lives of the vulnerable, writes RUTH HUNT

The 3.4 million retired workers known as the Waspi women, who were ripped off by Tory pension changes in the '90s, are some of the worst-hit victims of the general election disaster, writes RUTH HUNT

Nine years of austerity has devastated working-class lives – we’re about to find out how much worse things can get, writes RUTH HUNT

Disabled people are often made to feel invisible – yet one in five of the population are disabled. Where is the empathy for them in austerity Britain, asks RUTH HUNT

Ruth F Hunt interviews FRANCES RYAN about her new book dissecting the impacts of austerity

Intriguing exploration of an ubiquitous symbol

RUTH HUNT reminds us of the day-to-day fear that’s invading disabled people’s lives

An anarchic but never chaotic trip through troubling times

Victoria Bateman argues that it is women who have been the drivers of economic growth under capitalism

Challenging alternatives to the concentration of power in the hands of the few who tightly control the knowledge economy

RUTH HUNT asks Labour to hear the pleas from the Grey Swans activist group to end pensioner poverty

A timely examination of the issues surrounding sexual violence and consent in universities

Ruth Hunt speaks to DR JENNIFER KILCOYNE about Mersey Care No Force First's policy that has reduced assaults against staff by 21 per cent, instances of causing harm to staff by 31 per cent, has won it awards and gained international recognition