Understand Chilcot

James Cusick, leading expert on the Inquiry since it started 2009, explains the explosive report.

Stop these nasty attacks on people living here now

The rise of racist attacks on people from European Union and ethnic minorities must stop now. They have been legitimised by the Brexit campaigners like Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove giving a gloss of respectability to louts.

Is social media fuelling hatred and contempt in Britain?

Is the murder of Jo Cox’ causing us to pause and ask whether social media is fuelling hatred and contempt? Are people turning political debate into nasty insults? Are women and child sex abuse survivors the growing target of trolls in an increasingly nasty society? It’s time to stop this.

An Act of Disorder

How camera phone video saved three anti-Assad protesters from a “serious miscarriage of justice.”

The Biggest Lie of The Vote Leave Campaign

Many in the Brexit camp claim to be genuinely baffled by Dr Sarah Wollaston’s decision to defect from Vote Leave to remain. But truth is not a complicated principle.

Are expensive libel cases on the way out?

New figures released two days ago reveal an enormous drop in new libel claims last year – are we seeing the end of expensive libel cases and the beginning of people using the ” right to be forgotten ” on Google to silence critics