The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has formally condemned the United Kingdom’s Imprisonment for Public Protection regime as unlawful, characterising the continued confinement of more than 2,500 prisoners without a fixed release date as a…
A Quiet Crisis in Plain Sight New research has surfaced a troubling pattern in how British people manage everyday pain: nearly one in four adults — 23%, according to data published by pharmaceutical company Combogesic — have taken prescription painkillers…
Healthcare workers at an Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have walked off the job, demanding two months of unpaid wages. Their strike comes as the outbreak’s recorded death toll climbs past 1,400 — a convergence…
When Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, the company framed the occasion as a milestone in commercial satellite servicing — a spacecraft designed to repair, refuel, and extend the working…
The paperwork looked straightforward enough: two payments of £250,000 each, transferred from a fundraising vehicle called Britain Means Business to Reform UK in the weeks before the July 2024 general election. Half a million pounds, moving through a company controlled…
What has Lewisham Council decided? Lewisham Council has formally voted to refuse cooperation with Home Office immigration enforcement operations wherever “legally possible” — making it the first local authority in the United Kingdom to take such a position. The motion,…
A Protest Born of Desperation Wounded and chronically ill Palestinian journalists gathered in protest this week, issuing an urgent collective demand for medical evacuation from Gaza. Their appeal is not rhetorical. It is a clinical necessity, made urgent by the…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration acknowledged Sunday that a laboratory result it had publicly reported the previous day — identifying cyclospora contamination in shredded iceberg lettuce produced by a Taylor Farms subsidiary in Mexico — was a false positive,…
A police station. A uniform. A 17-year-old girl. These are the facts not in dispute. David Robert Blackbourne, 56, a former constable with New South Wales Police, is standing trial at the Downing Centre District Court in Sydney on charges…
A Childhood Shaped by Fear Timothy Cho was eleven years old when he first watched the state kill someone. The condemned man was bound to a post, stones forced into his mouth so he could not speak final words, and…