How Birmingham became Britain’s scapegoat
After a bin strike that has run for weeks, rubbish and rats are consuming Birmingham. Have we forgotten our second…
By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
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Mark Fairhurst: “I do not fear the law. I will accept the consequences”
The national chair of the Prison Officers’ Association on the next prison officers’ strike.
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The sick town of England
Why are 13,000 people in Dover too ill to work?
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Inside Britain’s prisons crisis
Austerity has reduced a working system to one of ungovernable horrors.
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England in pieces
Keir Starmer has imposed order after the riots. But now he must lead a national renewal.
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Understanding England’s anarchy
We must condemn these lawless riots – but we must also confront the anger behind them.
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Pia Sinha: how criminal gangs are taking over prisons
The ex-prison governor and justice reformer on a crumbling British penal system.
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How Conservative complacency left schools to rot
In 2003 Labour aimed to refurbish all of England’s secondary schools, but in 2010 the Tories dropped the project.
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