Kevin Rawlinson

Margaret Thatcher didnt understand why Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland were seeking more rights and feared that allowing them to express their identity would provoke a British Asian uprising.

Police will lose the power to bail people indefinitely under plans announced by the home secretary, lawyer Tom Crone says the system is “grotesque”.

She’s attacked “feckless” families who want something for nothing, but the Ukip MEP behind the party’s welfare policy owes more than £2,000 in unpaid child support, Channel 4 News can reveal.

Pakistan lifts its moratorium on the death penalty for terrorists as the funerals of the 141 people killed in the Taliban’s attack on a Peshawar school begin.

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Taliban, has attacked the “atrocious and cowardly” killing of more than 100 schoolchildren in Pakistan by the Islamist extremists.

People who ask children to sext them will be breaking the law under plans announced by David Cameron on Thursday. But critics doubt an already overstretched police service will be able to cope.

A night of rioting follows a grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer over the killing of black teenager Michael Brown. More National Guard reinforcements are being drafted in.

Its new manager is being investigated over racism claims and its owner faces similar allegations. But does Malky Mackay’s appointment at Wigan Athletic hint at a larger problem in football?

Despite repeated denials from the Metropolitan police, a Channel 4 News investigation finds officers have been set individual monthly arrest targets. Critics warn it could create perverse incentives.

A group of child abuse survivors tell MPs that, unless Home Secretary Theresa May replaces the entire panel she has appointed to oversee the inquiry, they will boycott the whole process.

A prominent black member of the Liberal Democrats resigns from the party, citing an alleged incident of “appalling racism”, which he said was the last straw.

Introduced after the Google, Facebook and Starbucks tax scandals, new tax rules are doing very little to curb similar legal tax avoidance, it is claimed. Is public disquiet having more influence?

Two people are arrested for obstructing police after giving food and water to a fellow protester who is occupying a site outside the Houses of Parliament.

As a study suggests teenage cannabis users risk “impairing” their educational ability, a leading researcher claims young people are being let down by media reporting on the dangers of drugs.

He led the far-Right BNP through electoral thick and thin for 15 years. Now, after his expulsion, Channel 4 News sheds light on the battle raging within the party that has done for Nick Griffin.