A Public Inquiry, Years in the Making Scotland’s public inquiry into group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation will formally begin on Wednesday, the Scottish government confirmed this week, with Education Secretary Mairi McAllan telling parliament the investigation would carry the…
Sharone Lifschitz, a British-Israeli artist and film-maker whose parents were seized by Hamas during the October 7th attacks, has said that a “big majority” of Israelis now oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking ahead of what analysts have described as…
A Historic Verdict in Tarnów A Polish district court convicted Catholic Bishop Andrzej Jeż on Thursday of deliberately failing to report two priests accused of sexually abusing children, in what the court itself described as an “unprecedented” ruling against a…
The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed a £5 million pilot programme targeting unemployed young people with existing informal income streams, offering them structured mentoring to formalise their activities as registered businesses before 2028, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat…
For most of its modern existence, the network of undersea cables threading the seabed around Britain has operated largely beyond the reach of government emergency powers. Owned and run primarily by private telecom companies, those cables carry almost all of…
Among the most unsettling statistics to emerge from the United Kingdom’s education system this year is a figure that resists easy explanation: twenty children aged five or younger were suspended from school during the 2024–2025 academic year for sexual misconduct.…
At least two members of the ruling coalition at Birmingham City Council — including a sitting cabinet member — hold direct financial interests in the city’s supported exempt accommodation sector, a system that now draws more than £410 million annually…
A Historic Estate at the Centre of a Procurement Scandal Dundrum House Hotel, a 300-year-old protected mansion in County Tipperary, has become the focal point of a serious accountability dispute involving tens of millions of euros in Irish state funding,…
It took just over a year for Solihull’s Reform UK group to unravel — and the manner of its unravelling reveals something more troubling than the conduct of three individual councillors. The central thesis is not complicated: the crisis engulfing…
The conviction of Vincent Chan — a nursery worker at the West Hampstead branch of the American childcare conglomerate Bright Horizons — on 56 charges including sexual assault by penetration and possession of at least 26,000 indecent images of children…