A former police inspector in England has been sentenced to ten years in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing men he encountered in the course of his duties, with one survivor’s decision to come forward proving instrumental in securing…
What has Arron Banks been accused of? Arron Banks, the businessman and prominent financial backer of Reform UK, is facing mounting pressure to disclose the full scope of a surveillance operation allegedly directed at journalists investigating the party’s funding. The…
Daniel Kinahan, the 49-year-old Irish national long identified by law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic as a senior figure in transnational organised crime, landed at Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel, on the outskirts of Dublin, at approximately 7.20pm…
A Movement Hiding in Plain Sight Across the United States and increasingly in Europe, a network of decentralized far-right groups known as Active Clubs has embedded itself within the aesthetics of fitness culture — martial arts training, weightlifting, outdoor endurance…
Two survivors of conversion practices in England have described lasting psychological harm inflicted by religious groups that subjected them to prayer rituals, aversion techniques and public shaming in attempts to alter their sexual orientation — as the UK government advances…
The killing of Chris Kaba in September 2022 will now face no further formal scrutiny of the officer responsible. That is the operative consequence of a decision announced by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), confirming it will not…
A Vessel Under Scrutiny On the morning of 2 August, the Italian naval frigate Thaon di Revel intercepted a tanker in international waters west of Pantelleria, the small Italian island that sits between Sicily and Tunisia, in what represents one…
NHS staff from overseas are reporting a measurable and worsening pattern of racist abuse from patients, with incidents rising steadily over five consecutive years to reach a level not seen in half a decade. The trend, documented in both national…
A Crisis Reshaped by External Force Seven months ago, the trajectory of Venezuela’s political crisis shifted in a manner that few analysts had anticipated. What had long been a domestic confrontation between the government of President Nicolás Maduro and a…
He did not need his name on a press release to make his position understood. Aleksander Ceferin, the Slovenian lawyer who has led UEFA since 2016, has emerged as the most consequential institutional obstacle to FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s ambition…