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…
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…
Keith Allen was, by all public appearances, a pillar of Birmingham’s cultural life — a conductor, an educator, a man who ran more than a dozen school bands and orchestras across the city. In the 1990s he was known informally…
The central fact of this dispute is not complicated: East Sussex County Council, led by a Reform UK administration, withdrew school holiday meal vouchers from families whose children qualify for free school meals, and when a local café owner and…
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…
United States President Donald Trump declared on Tuesday, speaking from the White House, that British Prime Minister Andy Burnham had personally committed during their first telephone conversation to “open up North Sea oil” — a claim that, if accurate, would…
An Arrest on School Grounds Footage released by Greater Manchester Police documents the arrest of Both Douk Deng, a 21-year-old South Sudanese national, after he entered the grounds of Edgar Wood Academy in Heywood carrying a hammer, a hatchet, a…
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…