Rishi Sunak has announced £3 million of extra funding to protect Jewish schools, synagogues and community buildings in the UK after a rise in antisemitic incidents. Britain is also sending warships and aircraft to support Israel following the Hamas attacks. Two Royal Navy support ships, multi-role Poseidon (P8) planes and around 100 marines are being […]
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His Majesty’s chief inspector of prisons has said one-in-10 prisons in England and Wales are barely fit for purpose and should be shut down if alternative spaces can be found. Charlie Taylor told the Guardian that Victorian-era inner city jails in particular “have got just far more prisoners than they were originally designed for.” Overcrowding […]
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The home secretary has ordered a review of armed policing after the army was put on standby to cover Met police officers who have downed their weapons. Suella Braverman has acted to try and quell what the Guardian calls a “growing rebellion of about 100 [firearms] officers” after one of their colleagues was charged last […]
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The terror suspect who escaped from HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday sparking a nationwide manhunt and debate about prison conditions has been arrested in London. Former solider Daniel Abed Khalife, aged 21, was captured today (September 9) in the Chiswick area of west London. Khalife absconded from Wandsworth jail where he was being held on terrorism […]
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The British Museum said it has recovered some the 2,000 items stolen from its collection – but it will take far longer to restore its reputation. A member of staff suspected of involvement in the thefts in 2021 has been sacked and police have launched an investigation. They have interviewed a suspect but no arrests […]
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The UK owes £20 trillion in reparations for its involvement in the slave trade, a United Nations judge has said. “Once a state has committed a wrongful act, it’s obliged to pay reparations,” judge Patrick Robinson told the BBC before his keynote speech at Unesco’s Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition at […]
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The government is looking to change the law and compel offenders to attend sentencing hearings after former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was given a whole-life term for murdering seven babies. Letby – the most prolific child killer in modern British history – refused to attend court to hear relatives of the murdered newborn babies read […]
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Downing Street has backed Lee Anderson’s message to asylum seekers after the deputy chairman of the Conservative party told them to “fuck off back to France” if they don’t like barges. A refugee charity said Anderson’s “dehumanising and inflammatory” language was putting people seeking sanctuary in the UK at “real risk”. However, No 10 said […]
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Just Stop Oil activists have blocked the Pride in London parade after accusing organisers of “working with industries complicit in worsening the climate crisis”. The Pride parade was halted for 17 minutes by a group of activists spraying pink paint on the street and sitting down in front of a Coca-Cola lorry. “Pride is a […]
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Rishi Sunak said his government will appeal against the Court of Appeal’s ruling that his government’s Rwanda policy is unlawful. Judges said the African country had not provided enough detail to prove it is a “safe third country” and that refugees deported there by Britain could be forced to return to the country from which […]
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