Life & Society

Published: 29 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Prime Minister Andy Burnham is expected to signal that the government is prepared to reconsider the pension triple lock as part of a wider effort to establish a national care service, opening one of the most sensitive funding debates facing the Labour government. Burnham is due to use his first Labour conference speech as prime minister to argue...

Published: 29 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Prosecutors in New York have reopened an investigation into allegations of a sexual assault involving a Cornell University student at a fraternity house, following renewed public scrutiny over how the case was initially handled and the consequences faced by members of the fraternity who were identified in connection with the allegations. The investigation concerns an October 2024 incident...

Published: 29 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Tennessee is preparing to carry out the execution of Christa Pike, a woman who was sentenced to death three decades ago for the 1995 murder of a fellow student, after Governor Bill Lee rejected her request for clemency. If the execution proceeds as scheduled, Pike would become the first woman executed by the state in roughly two centuries....

Published: 29 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A growing tent encampment in the heart of Madrid has become a visible symbol of Spain’s deepening housing crisis, as protesters demand action over rising rents, unaffordable homes and a system they say increasingly places housing beyond the reach of ordinary people. The camp has spread across the central Puerta del Sol plaza following nationwide demonstrations over housing...

Published: 28 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Three people, including a 10-year-old child, have died and dozens more have been injured after an inflatable boat carrying more than 100 people got into difficulty while attempting to cross the English Channel from northern France to the UK. French maritime authorities said they received a distress call during the early hours of Monday after the inflatable vessel...

Published: 28 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Freedom of speech is emerging as an important issue for voters ahead of the next UK general election, with new polling indicating that a large proportion of the public could consider political parties’ positions on free expression when deciding how to vote. The research, commissioned by civil liberties organisation Liberty and conducted by More in Common, found that...

Published: 28 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A tense confrontation over a controversial Orange Order parade in Portadown, Northern Ireland, eased early Monday after hundreds of protesters dispersed from the Garvaghy Road following a day-long blockade. The standoff followed a late-night court ruling that allowed the loyalist parade to proceed along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road for the first time in almost three decades. The...

Published: 28 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online For 13-year-old Muneer Farie, school once represented a path towards a different future. Every morning, he attended classes in his village in Yemen’s Taiz governorate, while afternoons were spent helping his father feed the family’s livestock. The boy, from a farming family, dreamed of becoming the first teacher among his relatives. That routine has now disappeared. Renewed fighting...

Published: 25 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online David Beckham has received a dividend of about £39 million from his commercial business empire following a record year of revenue and profit, with a series of major brand partnerships connected to the 2026 Fifa World Cup helping strengthen the former England captain’s global business profile. The payment came as DRJB Holdings, the commercial company behind Beckham’s wider...

Published: 25 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A major community-led regeneration plan in Frome has suffered a significant setback after Somerset council selected a London-based property investment company as the preferred bidder for the town’s long-contested Saxonvale site. More than 1,000 local residents had backed the Mayday Saxonvale project, collectively helping to raise almost £1 million towards a plan that sought to transform the five-hectare...