Category: UK

Britain’s system for controlling arms exports is broken, subject to political manipulation and has seen conduct that crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes, [more…]

Police want changes to the law giving them “a licence to kill”, leading rights groups have warned as the government prepares to give officers new [more…]

Britain’s state-owned energy company faces a “challenging” task to find a chief executive for its Aberdeen HQ when it begins recruiting this month, senior industry [more…]

Two NHS professionals were investigated and barred from their workplace for expressing interest in organising a peaceful protest in support of Palestine during their lunch [more…]

Time is running out for the UK government to issue a formal apology to women who were forced to give up their babies for adoption [more…]

The University of Cambridge risks “losing unbelievable talent” owing to a drop-off in funding for PhDs, the vice-chancellor has cautioned. Prof Deborah Prentice, who took [more…]

Children and young people in England with serious mental health problems are still being sent for treatment many miles away from their homes because bed [more…]

The UK’s targets to stop the destruction of the natural world are so inadequate that they could be met even if all the country’s bees, [more…]

Two bereaved parents have filed a case at the European court of human rights, claiming that the UK government’s treatment of them is discriminatory. Jyotee [more…]

Passengers will face “significant” disruption on busy rail routes this weekend as train managers stage another strike in a dispute over rest day working. Members [more…]