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Book Review / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026

MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation 

One of the cells at HMP Millsike during it's official opening - the new Category C jail in Yorkshire will deliver 1,500 prison places, March 27, 2025
Scottish Human Rights Commission / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
Displaced Palestinians lineup to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 23, 2026
Human Rights / 23 July 2026
23 July 2026
Protesters gather near a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Scarborough, Maine, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, July 14, 2026
United States / 15 July 2026
15 July 2026
Dungavel Detention Centre, just outside the small village of Strathaven in Scotland, August 2003
Asylum Seekers / 14 July 2026
14 July 2026
Staff lay a carpet on the tarmac before President Donald Trump exits Air Force One upon arriving for the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Press Freedom / 12 July 2026
12 July 2026

US Justice Department says the ‘reporters are not the targets, those leaking classified information are’. But media freedom advocates warn that Trump's ‘war on the press is looking for another victim’

Campaigners pose for a photograph after a meeting with Prime Minster Sir Keir Starmer to discuss historical forced adoption in 10 Downing Street, London, before making an apology in the House of Commons for historical enforced adoptions, July 2, 2026
Human Rights / 2 July 2026
2 July 2026
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood delivers a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), in Westminster, London, March 5, 2026
Human Rights / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

Labour peer Alf Dubs calls on incoming PM to country’s Britain's borders with a ‘commitment to basic rights, and compassion for those who are in time of greatest need’

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to the members of the media on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in Thonon-les-Bains, France, June 17, 2026
Human Rights / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

Repealing Britain’s most dangerous Bill must be the first act of whoever replaces Keir Starmer, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE