Donald Trump has gone fully in on Israel’s war aims. That decision may yet come back to hurt him – and Keir Starmer ...

Israel does not appear to have the conventional ‘bunker buster’ weapons needed to attack Iran’s underground Fordow uranium enrichment plant – but it has been widely assumed that the US does. Without ...

Labour has quietly dropped legal fight over unlawful crackdown on protest. But what about those already arrested?

Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment. That claim doesn’t match up with its donors ...

Too many in both government and civil society persist in the belief that there should be technocratic solutions to slavery and forced labour. But slavery and forced labour are not principally ...

This bill ignores vital safeguards. From my frontline experience, I see how it will increase suffering, not ease it ...

Leading the call is Baroness Gustafsson of Chesterton – as she is known since she was handed a life peerage to enable her to take on a ministerial role – the head of the Office for Investment, a ...

Women will no longer face prison for ending a pregnancy. There are two reasons why this reform was urgently needed ...

The anti-trafficking movement has long been divided into factions. All groups agree that no one should endure trafficking, but they break apart over the strategies to get there. For decades this has ...

Revealed: Dozens of women with mental health problems ‘stripped’ and made to wear ‘last resort’ anti-rip clothing ...

Binyamin Netanyahu ’s government in Israel remains insistent that Iran is the main threat to the entire region. This morning (13 June), it launched strikes on Iran’s nuclear programme, having ...

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