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Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Jon Ungoed-Thomas is a reporter at the Observer

August 2024

  • An elderly lady holding a cup of tea at home in front of an electric fire

    UK pensioners left on ‘financial cliff edge’ by cuts to winter fuel payments

    New analysis shows tens of thousands of older people may end up worse off than those who retain energy benefit
  • Junior Doctor Victoria Selwyn, photographed at Shenley Park in Hertfordshire. She is the founder of Headucate UK, a mental health charity.

    Trainee doctors in UK facing higher risk of burnout than during pandemic

    Recent GMC figures reveal young medics are struggling with unsustainable workloads and inadequate support
  • HM Revenue & Customs note paper with a pen and keyboard

    ‘Free money’: £4bn lost to fraud and error on flagship HMRC ‘innovation’ scheme

    UK tax credits to promote research and development were claimed by a pub for changing its menus and by window cleaners for hanging their buckets

July 2024

  • GPs, all wearing orange BMA hats against the sun, hold placards saying 'Pay restoration for doctors' with the London Eye ferris wheel in the background

    GPs warn of surgery closures in England and fear similar fate to NHS dentistry

  • Premier League teams with front-of-shirt gambling sponsorship deals include, from left: Leicester City, Brentford, Everton, Wolverhampton, West Ham United and Nottingham Forest

    Call to ban gambling sponsors from UK sport as hidden harms are revealed

  • A pedestrian passes a Cashino casino and slot machine outlet, operated by Merkur in Luton

    Fears grow over rise of ‘under the radar’ all-night slot machine halls in UK

  • The moment the statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol harbour in 2020.

    Slave trader Colston left bequest to Church of England, archive shows

  • The great pylon pile-on: can councils’ opposition scupper Labour’s ‘clean power’ revolution?

  • ‘Staggering shortfall’ of NHS staff as record number of patients wait for tests

  • First Covid inquiry report to set out ‘appalling failures’ during pandemic

  • Chicken industry must halt expansion to stop ‘environmental scandal’ in River Severn

  • £1.2bn plan to turn sewage waste into drinking water branded a ‘white elephant’

  • End of the librarian? Council cuts and new tech push profession to the brink

  • ‘People are incandescent…’ How sewage spills became a vote-winner for the Lib Dems

  • HMRC withheld offshore tax avoidance figures for UK’s wealthy during election

June 2024

  • Posters referring to physician associates as ‘The Physician’ were removed by NHS after doctors said they were ‘dangerous’

    Wider use of physician associates will increase inequality, say UK doctors

    Regulator warned of risk to patient safety posed by plan to recruit 10,000 healthcare workers to assist doctors
  • A Reform activist distributes party material outside their offices in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex

    Farage on track from Clacton pier to a parliament pulpit

    Reform canvassers tap into fertile territory with populist policies and leader’s blend of bluster and charisma
    • NHS faces ‘ticking bomb’ with number of heart failure patients set to soar

    • EU drugs watchdog probes painkiller linked to deaths

    • HMRC has failed to fine a single ‘enabler’ of offshore tax fraud in five years

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