Religious leaders have gutted a progressive sexual offences law, creating a new version that permits child marriage
Exclusive: Francis Maude allegedly touted his consultancy firm during ‘fact-finding’ mission
Losing their homes, struggling for food – cleaners, health and transport workers say strikes are their only option
Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s new golden age of coal reveals a country that is going back to old-fashioned ways
Housing campaigners warn that renters could be pushed into poverty and homelessness without evictions freeze
Collaborate or resist? Patriotism, poverty and self-interest are pulling Luhansk’s people apart
Many acted like COVID was over once restrictions ended. Let’s not do the same with the latest devastating heatwave
UK could bring National Grid and retailers in-house and build public renewable energy, says ex-Labour policy chief
Schools urged to ignore attorney general’s ‘dangerous’ comments, with trans kids still protected by equality law
We can’t accept an annual lurch from droughts to floods – we must take our land back from the aristocracy
