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How arms dealing has compromised Britain’s foreign policy | Letters
The testimony of the former Foreign Office policy adviser Mark Smith confirms exactly what the Campaign Against Arms Trade has been arguing for decades – the UK’s arms-export control system is rotten to its core (
I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit …
London’s first Roman basilica found under office block
The remains of London’s earliest Roman basilica have been discovered under an office block, in what archaeologists have described as one of the most significant recent discoveries in the capital.
The almost 2,000-year-old structure was part of the forum, the Roman capital’s social and administrative centre, and built around the …
Domestic violence study that strangled rats should not have been approved, animal advocates argue
Animal welfare experts and advocates have questioned whether an Australian-led study that non-fatally strangled rats as part of research into the impact of intimate partner violence in humans should have been approved.
They argue that, despite gaining necessary ethical approvals, the study’s use of animals lacked justification given the potentially …
British shipping firm used slave labour in Caribbean after abolition, study finds
A British shipping company that became the largest in the world at the height of empire continued to use enslaved labour after the abolition of slavery, research has found.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC), which received a royal charter from Queen Victoria in 1839, used enslaved workers …
‘I want more joy, less killing’: Jamaicans say police alone cannot quell gang crime
Operation Restoration Christian
school sits amid a line of patched-up housing blocks and streetside cookshops in Trench Town. In an area known as one of Kingston’s inner-city crime hotspots, it was founded as a haven for children caught up in gang violence.Inside, boys in smart …
As a young reporter, I was sent to cover the Moorgate train disaster. I had no idea it had killed my father
Friday 28 February 1975 was the day that changed my life. At half past eight that morning, I was sitting down to write a newspaper feature. At 9.35am, I was standing in the press enclosure outside Moorgate station.
I was 25 years young, a freelance journalist who covered occasional news …
How Nelson Mandela’s Trafalgar Square speech still resonates, 20 years on
Nelson Mandela’s face once again lit up Trafalgar Square this week, projected on to Nelson’s column while the sound of his voice echoed out, calling for a “great generation” to end poverty – 20 years after he delivered that impassioned call to an audience of 22,000.
It was a message …
Thursday briefing: Has Labour laid the foundations for fixing Britain’s housing crisis?
‘There is fear of what lies ahead’: Germans divided as snap election looms
“I live in Germany’s oldest city, founded by the Romans over 2,000 years ago,” said Gregor, 59, from Trier, a town of about 110,000 inhabitants in the country’s affluent south-west and part of the world-renowned Moselle valley wine region. A short driving distance away from the borders of Luxembourg, Belgium, …
‘Last nail in the coffin’: Israeli settlers push on with fresh West Bank land grab
Israeli settlers are pushing ahead with a largely unnoticed de facto annexation of large areas of rural land in the occupied West Bank that has already seen the almost total displacement of Bedouin in large areas.
While settler activity, including violence, has long been well-documented in the section of the …