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It's getting harder and harder to argue that the prison system is working. So why haven't we changed it?

People facing unaffordable rent increases are being classified as "intentionally homeless" if they are forced to leave.

Prisons have managed to avoid devastating outbreaks of Covid-19. But the measures used to contain the virus have exacerbated a burgeoning mental health crisis for inmates - and those they leave behind.

Government and corporations will again balance the costs of a long-term stimulus on the backs of the poor

“We are stuck in a tragic relationship with GDP growth, now is the time to escape it and build a new system where the economy is built around people and planet.”

The Korean Centre for Disease Control said last week there no new domestic cases of Covid-19 for first time since February.

Not content with ‘flattening the curve’ or mitigating the spread of the disease, Jacinda Ardern moved to completely clear New Zealand of coronavirus.

Rishi Sunak’s rescue plan is predicated on replacing revenues with loans – turning assets into liabilities - which could cause a bottom-up collapse of the economy.

In classic hedge fund manager-style he has put in place an overly complicated scheme that eliminates risk and allows the government to maintain its ideological position.

Even the Telegraph can't ignore that the Tories are copycatting Corbyn's programme.

Far-right and anti-immigration candidates suffer a comprehensive washout in the general election, with high-profile candidates who expressed eurosceptic views also near the bottom of the polls.

In the UK, one politician has been subject to the longest continuous smear campaign in UK history, and we are all influenced by it. Over 75 per cent of Jeremy Corbyn media coverage factually misrepresents him.

I’m 64 next week and I feel the British Government has ruined my life. It has also ruined the lives of many more.

"I don’t want to rely on the Government’s benefits – I want to work so I can prove myself to my children"

“I don’t think about being cut much now because even if I did, I won’t get it back again so what is the point. But I don’t want the same thing to happen to others.”

I have set up a petition to call for an amendment to the Official Secrets Act. This would prevent its use in cases where child abuse is involved and would mean that child abuse could no longer be used as some kind of grubby political football, to keep MPs and ...

Yesterday Home Secretary Sajid Javid praised veteran Labour MP Dianne Abbott for being the sort of "role model" that Conservatives should be appealling to, insiting "it takes guts and determination to become the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons," in a rousing Conservative Party Conference ...

“There are probably women who have not yet found out that they had relationships with undercover officers, and as a result of names released by the undercover policing enquiry there’s now over twenty women who have brought claims.”

"the changes you have made since becoming leader have changed the party beyond all recognition. You have allowed your personal obsessions free reign."

Patrick Kielty’s family are sadly well aware of the price of instability in Northern Ireland.

“I wouldn’t even rape you” he tweeted to Jess Phillips, during a 2016 campaign of trolling threatening tweets against the Birmingham Yardley MP.

"Of Course, we went there to see Stonehenge, Old Sarum, but we couldn't do it because there was muddy slush everywhere. The town was covered by this slush. We got wet, took the nearest train and came back."

The government has said that after March 2019 "your driving licence may no longer be valid by itself" in the EU, in its latest no-deal planning papers. To be able to drive your vehicle in the EU an application may be needed to gain an international driving permit for UK citizens. ...

“It is very concerning that the Conservative Party MEPs chose to defend Hungary’s appalling track record, rather than supporting this motion to protect the rule of law.”

Michael Gove this morning denied that fellow hard Brexit Tories are plotting to oust their party leader. Talking to the BBC’s Today programme Mr Gove insisted that "loose talk" of a leadership challenge could "undermine" Brexit negotiations, despite reports that 50 of his colleagues met last night to discuss ditching ...

- A disappointing reality for those who may have hoped that MPs would “just get on with it”and that anybody pointing out contradictions and problems was part of “project fear”,scuppering Brexit or betraying the “will of the people.”

Boris Johnson has admitted he “deeply regrets” going down the Brexit route according to sources close to the former Foreign Secretary. Matt Kelly, editor of The New European, revealed on Twitter that someone who knows Johnson very well said he now wishes he had sent the other letter. The source ...

Three years ago, N.K. Jemisin became the first black woman to win one of science fiction’s most prestigious prizes, the Hugo for best novel. She won it again last year, for the second in the series The Obelisk Gate, and this year became the first person to win three Best ...

Suicides, drugs and violence with impunity, vulnerable prisoners locked up 23 hours a day and corridors littered with cockroaches, blood and vomit all featured in a shocking prisons inspectorate report that had HMP Birmingham taken off private security firm G4S within hours. With prison assaults, drugs taking and self-harm at ...

The Labour party has made a formal complaint to the press regulator over newspaper coverage of Jeremy Corbyn’s attendance at a memorial to those killed when Israel bombed the Tunisian PLO headquarters. The Labour leader, a backbencher back in 2014 was attending a conference at the invitation of the Tunisian ...

Shocking images show a 76-year-old gran being forced to sleep on chairs in a crammed A&E department. Jacqueline Hickson, 76, waited a staggering 62 hours for a bed after she was rushed to hospital with breathing problems. Bosses at Glan Clwyd Hospital, in Rhyl, north Wales, say the heatwave has ...

Bexley in South East London is the most affordable place to rent in London, according to new data. Divided equally a four bed property costs £408.38 a month on average. This is 35 per cent cheaper than the average cost of renting a room in London, which was found to be ...

BREAKING: Jeremy Corbyn gave Theresa May a grilling for the first time in PMQs about Vote Leave failing to co-operate with the Electoral Commission’s investigation into breaking electoral laws. He demanded the senior Conservatives in the Vote Leave campaign comply with the police investigation now that the Electoral Commission has ...

Last night in parliament, irony died, and perhaps with it the chance of any Brexit deal being accepted by enough of Theresa May’s threadbare majority. In a bizarre turn of events, the Prime Minister, weakened by nine resignations in eight days orchestrated by shadowy Tory 'government within a government' the ...

These are the heart-warming moments brave children who have beaten cancer mark the end of their life-saving treatment – by ringing the end of treatment bell as they leave hospital for the final time. The youngsters carry out the symbolic gesture to celebrate the end of gruelling therapy as their ...

The US president arrived in Scotland on Friday evening after completing his two-day "working trip". Mr Trump, whose mother was Scottish, and his wife Melania are spending the weekend at his Turnberry hotel.

Emily Thornberry standing in for Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn had MPs in stitches as she compared the Tory ministerial bloodbath over Brexit to "Reservoir Dogs remade by the Chuckle Brothers." Theresa May's deputy David Lidington who took Prime Minister’s Questions today squirmed as the Shadow Foreign Secretary forensically explained the ...

BREAKING NEWS: Boris Johnson's resignation letter warns that the Government's course will leave Britain as a colony of the EU with no say over policies in a semi - Brexit. Johnson wrote that the compromise that Theresa May had claimed her cabinet had assented to less than 48 hours before ...

In an unprecedented intervention, the National Audit Office (NAO) has accused a government minister of making false statements to MPs to downplay failings of a flagship Tory policy. There were calls for Esther McVey to resign after the Auditor General wrote in an open letter to complain that the Work ...

A slavery victim was told that his benefits would be slashed and threatened with jail if he didn't pay a historical fine for committing a crime he was forced into by one of the UK's biggest human trafficking rings. The 51-year-old man, who was regularly beaten, starved and at one ...

Nurses quit NHS to work in Lidl because pay, hours and benefits better. With an astonishing shortage of 40,000 nurses across the UK, the NHS continues to face a drain on staffing as nurses quit for better pay, hours and benefits in supermarkets like Lidl.

A child's wellbeing to be linked to how well the family functions rather than parents' sexual tastes.

Destiny Jukes, 37, is married to oil worker Steve, 52, and the couple's children have dual citizenship - but were facing being torn apart

Motorists have been warned as temperatures soar

Craig Cobb, 66, infamously tried to create an Aryan enclave in Leith after moving there in 2012