Archive of July 2015
Pick of the Week: Sewel scandal, cannabis, and Home Office turmoil
Our top five stories of the week, including the Lord Sewell scandal, possible cannabis reform and turmoil at the Home Office
-
Comment: Britain has a responsibility toward Calais migrants
The prime ministers short-sighted indifference goes against Britain's proud history of offering safe haven to those fleeing violence
-
Comment: Where is the outrage over Britain's Sandra Blands?
The death of Sandra Bland has won press attention in the UK, but we continue to ignore the deaths of black people in custody here
-
'It'll be hell': The view from inside prison about a smoking ban
The government is planning on a pilot scheme banning smoking in prisons
-
Police commissioners offer fresh hope for cannabis reform
The devolution of crime strategy to police commissioners opens up a new avenue for cannabis reformer to secure change.
-
It's official: Private prisons cost taxpayer more than state prisons
The MoJ's own stats show publicly-owned prisons do more with less - but will Michael Gove listen?
-
Pick of the Week: Tony Blair, surveillance, and the legal strike
Our five most read stories, for your reading pleasure.
-
Comment: Greens must appeal to Tory voters too
There's no future for the Greens in just being a more radical version of the Labour party
-
Pick of the Week: Foxhunting, water-cannons and homeopathy
Our best pieces of the week, for your reading pleasure, this week featuring animal rights, Boris Johnson, the eurozine crisis and proponents of alternative medicine
-
Comment: Boris has presided over a catastrophic loss of trust in the police
Water cannons are just the tip of the iceberg: Boris's time at City Hall has coincided with a breakdown in policing by consent
-
PMQS verdict: Harman is right, but it doesn’t save her
The temporary Labour leader struggles and fails to press her arguments against a prime minister who trades in blithe but convincing falsehoods
-
Comment: Young people need sex education to protect them from abuse
Ministers say sex education is compulsory - but a free schools loophole is leaving children vulnerable to abuse
-
Comment: Heathrow expansion is just a sticking plaster solution
Syed Kamall: "We need to think more long-term when it comes to aviation"
-
TTIP will force all Europeans to take Greece's medicine
In modern Europe, democracy, rights and people’s needs are being sacrificed on the altar of free market fundamentalism
-
Osborne's cut to housing benefit will drive young people into homelessness
Cuts to housing benefits for young people could drive them out onto the streets
-
Comment: Want to boost the economy George? Try slashing the arms trade
Public subsidies of arms companies – and the firms which support them – do nothing to boost our economy or protect us from terror.
-
Eyewitness: Despite media fear-mongering, Greeks stay calm and carry on
Away from the fierce political rhetoric, Greeks on all sides of the political divide keep their good humour
-
Time to end the scandal of young people dying in prison
Harris review into self-inflicted deaths in pr is a challenge to the whole criminal justice system
-
'We have to start from zero': Greeks watch as endgame nears
On the streets of Athens, Greeks look on in disbelief as they enter a dangerous new period of uncertainty
-
PMQS verdict: Harman wrong-foots Cameron with declaration of war on Heathrow
Labour is poised to make the Heathrow debate as damaging for Cameron as humanly possible
-
Comment: How we impoverish children in the name of a tough immigration policy
Behind all the immigration rhetoric are a small army of child victims, thrown onto the streets and at risk of abuse due to government indifference
© 2004-2019