Defra’s Council for Sustainable Business is chaired by CEO of Severn Trent, which discharged raw sewage into river

Lawyer convicted in US probe into Russian election meddling was hired by UK firm that represented warlord Prigozhin

Exclusive: Detainees worked a million hours on £1 wages in past five years, sparking claims of government exploitation

Judge Silas Reid has again ruled that protesters can’t address the climate emergency in their legal defence

Patriarchal values and weak laws made Romania the ideal place for Tate’s criminal pursuits, say local feminists

Home Office minister Robert Jenrick accused human rights lawyers of ‘abusing’ law and suggested they were being spied on

Prisoners are spending long hours in overcrowded cells without any rehabilitation activities, damning new reports warn

Women experience years of suffering due to gaslighting, misdiagnosis and wrong treatment by medics, say UTI experts

The undercover policing inquiry is downplaying spying on trade unions and government involvement in blacklisting

Between ageing populations, shifting attitudes and challenges to capitalist beliefs, workers have unprecedented power

‘Constant hatred from news outlets and social media influencers has caused more and more fear around trans people’

OPINION: We need a publicly owned clean energy system, not one built to maximise fossil fuel firms’ profits

Exclusive: Energy regulator did nothing about mountain of complaints until British Gas prepayment scandal was revealed

OPINION: The SNP has been a victim of its own success. Scotland’s route to independence is now anyone’s guess

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London law firm that worked for Wagner Group founder faces call to be ‘struck off’ as regulator launches probes

OPINION: To avoid another government committed to continuing Thatcherism, we need new tech that makes votes count

Charities say the government has ignored warnings that already marginalised voters could be disenfranchised by changes

Vulnerable people are losing money to the ‘infinite income’ scheme, while authorities fail to act

Only Hungary – condemned for violations of democracy – has put the same restrictions on workers, lawyers say