Living wage protest at heart of Westminster
David Cameron’s promised world of the “living wage” is already starting to look empty, even at the heart of government.
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David Cameron’s promised world of the “living wage” is already starting to look empty, even at the heart of government.
David Cameron says the fight against Islamic extremism is “one of the great struggles of our generation” – but critics say the new strategy will alienate British Muslims.
The justice training deal may be off, and there’s new hope for Karl Andree, the Brit sentenced to lashes in Saudi Arabia. What’s left of Britain’s relationship there?
Long marchers from the 2005 Cameron leadership bid will hope it’s a return to his original programme of work, but he now faces divisive and headline-hogging battles.
Not so much a prison, more a piece of prime real estate: the government has confirmed it’s considering selling off jails in inner city areas to fund modernisation plans.
Afghan Taliban militants storm a prison in the central city of Ghazni, killing police officers and releasing more than 350 inmates.
The findings of a Commission say the Church has an “unrepeatable chance to make things better” and calls for support for survivors of abuse to be an “absolute priority.”
Controversial immigration detention centre Yarl’s Wood has been branded “a place of national concern” after a damning report from the prison watchdog.
In his first speech on prisons as justice secretary, Michael Gove will today promote education as a way of cutting reoffending rates. But there will be no mention of overcrowding.
“That’s not a justice system. It’s an injustice system”. In a sweeping call for reform – President Obama says too many Black Americans are locked up in jail.
Jails in England and Wales are found to be in “their worst state for a decade” with some prisons now merely places of “violence, squalor and idleness”.
How many times have the authorities foiled terror plots since the events of July 7 2005?
Speed boats ferry people to shore from a giant ship hovering off the coast after the ransom is paid – and those who die onboard are simply tipped over the side.
Concerns are raised over the fate of ancient monuments in the Syrian city of Palmyra – but the victory by the Islamic State group is first and foremost a strategic one.
America has more than two million people inside its prisons. But in 2014, a record number of prisoners were released after they were found to have been wrongfully convicted.