Just 5% of the additional prison places promised by Conservative ministers in 2016 have been delivered
Society
A damning new report highlights a series of failures under the last Conservative Government
Campaigners hope a proposed new law could bring an end to a system that puts vulnerable people into even more danger
The new Conservative Leader combines culture war politics with a deregulation agenda that would set the country back decades, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar report
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Dan Evans and Tom Latchem reveal fresh evidence in one of the most baffling missing person cases of recent years
By the excellent Bruce Menzies, in The Fremantle Shipping News:
On a bleak industrial state outside Fremantle, Simon Gilby is smiling broadly, waving me up towards the spacious unit that temporarily serves as his artistic studio. His advice was to wrap up warm, which I’ve done, though I notice that Gilby himself is wearing a motorcycle jacket so spectacularly derelict a gust of wind may […]
Dan, a former student of mine and now an academic, activist and friend, is referring to the regular rallies that are taking place across the world in response to Israel’s annihilation of Gaza. We are talking, at my instigation, about the character of those gatherings; and while in some ways it feels indecent to focus […]
An evidence-led, long-called for, but under-used programme of checks for people with a learning disability has the potential to help ease health inequalities more widely, Saba Salman reports