Our probation service is underfunded and overstretched, struggling to support ex-offenders amid rising caseloads and an early release scheme

The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces at work around hierarchies and structural power. Hardeep Matharu reports

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Nigel Farage has been given some brief breathing room in the race to the bottom of Britain’s far-right thanks to his nemesis, Rupert Lowe, writes David Aaronovitch

Greenpeace UK says 2.87bn litres lost daily, a fifth of all water pumped through network

It was a conspiracy shared by a handful of social media accounts and ultimately ended up in Russian state media

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The long-serving prime minister concedes defeat to Péter Magyar, who has promised closer EU ties and an anti-corruption drive.

I have seen up-close the fallout of the disastrous policing decisions May made as home secretary. We need to urgently restore the force to what it once was, says former chief superintendent Dal Babu

Ignorance and arrogance were his drivers. The idea that the regime plays by different rules, with its own goals, never occurred to him, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right

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Together is an alliance of hundreds of civil society organisations united against the far right.

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The government's reforms are welcome but they won't end political corruption

Amy Wallace spent four years collaborating with Virginia Roberts Giuffre on her memoir, Nobody’s Girl, which has had a far-reaching impact in the fight for justice for the victims and survivors of Jef...

The sex-trafficker’s fingerprints are all over the early rise of the alt-right and the far-right movements that would follow, new documents reveal

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