Back in the 1990s UK Government officials and the City devised a plan to save the Lloyd’s of London insurance market and avert a banking crisis. It worked, in the short-term. But the solution was fatally flawed, according to former Lloyd’s deputy chairman, Stephen Merrett (himself a defendant in t
The UK's coalition government has six months to overturn the ban on prisoners voting.
Kidney transplant patient Roseline Akhalu was detained by the UK immigration authorities for the second time on Wednesday 16 May and is at risk of deportation to Nigeria where, doctors warn, she will die if she cannot afford medical care. This is Roseline’s account of her first detention in March
The world’s biggest security company, fast devouring UK public services — police, justice, health, asylum housing, is complicit in Israeli human rights abuses
Guantánamo expert comments on a chilling development in policing
UK penal reform charity the Howard League claims newly opened Oakwood Prison, run by G4S, is turning away difficult prisoners and losing staff
What do the main candidates for Mayor of London have to say about policy and practice regarding migrants and their communities? Here is what they have told Migrants’ Rights Network.
A children’s TV serial about the Falklands War that the Thatcher Government tried to ban is being republished as a free e-book novel for the thirtieth anniversary of the war.
Failed slum clearances in the 1960s and 1970s taught us that breaking up communities causes long lasting harm, says chief executive of a Housing Association on George Osborne's Cheshire patch
Is the Government neglecting to scrutinise what Ministry of Defence officials are doing? Or is lack of scrutiny a deliberate and necessary part of the privatisation process?
James Partridge, whose appearance was transformed by fire when he was 18, campaigns for greater social acceptance and understanding of facial and body diversity. Now he's taking on the film industry
Richard Branson's Virgin Group is lead sponsor of tomorrow's London Marathon. It's “a national institution” says Virgin. “The atmosphere and camaraderie is like nothing else.” One medical student running in the Marathon doesn't like what Virgin is doing to another much-loved national institution.
