While a company executive assured the UK Parliament there was nothing to worry about, a child in a G4S house counted rats.
The recent charge that the Home Office takes steps to ‘fix’ the figures is a shocking one. It shines light on a system dogged by maladministration and misplaced priorities.
The northern territory of the Perm region is known as 'the Zone' – a remote region of prison camps and correctional facilities. Ola Cichowlas came to know it quite well….
Jews in Britain sound the alarm about rising hostility towards migrants, asylum seekers, Gypsies and travellers.
The government's immigration Bill is dehumanising, divisive, callous and unwarranted. We all have a duty to oppose it.
The UK government continues to use the potential embarrassment of the White House as an argument against justice and liberty in the UK.
In July 2012, a mix of flash flooding and gross negligence conspired to kill nearly 200 in Southern Russia. One man has been fighting since then to get justice for his dead son. Lyolya Vlasenko reports.
'Putting victims first' — that's the government line. The UK's largest civil service union interrogates justice privatisation.
Mikheil Saakashvili, ex-president of Georgia, was once hailed as the very archetype of a model post-Soviet leader – smooth-tongued and sharp-suited. But was the fluency with which he promoted himself as a modern messiah merely a case of pouring old Georgian wine into new bottles?
"While the drug laws did not stop my sons from getting into drugs, they certainly went a long way to stop them from getting out." An open letter from a mother who lost her sons to overdoses.
The US drug policy is changing, pitting states against federal law. This essay explores this inner friction of contradictory drug legislation, and what it may mean for the international drug control regime, itself a result of US drug policy. (4,400 words)
