The government is standing by as foreign private equity firms buy up UK universities. This should be a major concern ...

Bolsonaro’s attempted coup broke social contract of protecting memory and truth to ensure past crimes never happen again ...

We transferred wealth from the slave trade to survivors of racist policing. It’s a template for reparative justice ...

Revealed: Survivors say Harrods’ structure enabled sexual abuse, with staff involved in trafficking women to Al Fayed ...

Israel doesn’t want peace, but ‘hard security’ can’t work. Israelis must wake up to that fact to end the deaths in Gaza ...

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No, Jeremy Corbyn is as buried as the Conservatives’ Kemi Badenoch. Taking Zarah Sultana onboard was a disaster in terms of reaching a broad public base. They are too extreme to make an impact and ...

Readers discuss UK politics and whether they will support Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new left-wing party ...

It’s easy to view the attempted rollback of rights as an American problem. But LGBTQ rights are at risk here, too ...

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Hopes of ceasefire fade again as Israel intensifies bombardment, despite indications that IDF officers admit war is unwinnable ...