Labour has quietly dropped legal fight over unlawful crackdown on protest. But what about those already arrested?

This bill ignores vital safeguards. From my frontline experience, I see how it will increase suffering, not ease it ...

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The anti-trafficking movement has long been divided into factions. All groups agree that no one should endure trafficking, ...

Women will no longer face prison for ending a pregnancy. There are two reasons why this reform was urgently needed ...

Leading the call is Baroness Gustafsson of Chesterton – as she is known since she was handed a life peerage to enable her to ...

Attempts to wrestle with fake news and post-truth lack a concept of ideology to tell us not only what is believed, but why, and suggest how to move on. Trump refuses to answer a reporter accused ...

Too many in both government and civil society persist in the belief that there should be technocratic solutions to slavery ...

Binyamin Netanyahu ’s government in Israel remains insistent that Iran is the main threat to the entire region. This morning ...

Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment. That claim doesn’t match up with its donors ...

Revealed: Dozens of women with mental health problems ‘stripped’ and made to wear ‘last resort’ anti-rip clothing ...

In spite of clear popular support, Iceland's new crowd-sourced constitution was recently killed by politicians. An ex-member of the constitutional council sheds some light on what happened - and ...