Exclusive: Chief inspector of prisons says 14 Victorian jails cannot provide proper accommodation for inmates Violence, isolation and rat-infested cells: insiders on the state of English and Welsh prisons One in 10 prisons in England and Wales are barely fit for purpose and should be shut down if alternative buildings […]

More than 6,000 ethnic Armenian refugees have left region following Azerbaijan victory Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh victory highlights limits of Russia’s power The day the shelling began, Genadi Hyusunts had just taken his four-day-old son home from the hospital. Within hours, he had to hustle his wife, the newborn child and his […]

The stricken authority now set to receive a revised emergency budget after Michael Gove was forced to call in commissioners Birmingham city council has voted to approve spending control measures, as well as endorsing a “financial recovery plan” that is already under way. The council debated the plan to tackle […]

Officers in Greater London’s police force have put down weapons in protest at colleague’s murder charge The Metropolitan police has called on the SAS to provide counter-terrorism support after firearms officers downed their weapons in protest at the charging of their colleague with murder. Suella Braverman ordered a review of […]

Exclusive: Major donor questioning ‘ability to continue support’ for party amid doubt over Birmingham to Manchester leg A prominent Conservative donor has threatened to stop supporting the party if Rishi Sunak scraps the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2, as ministers consider pulling the plug on the multibillion-pound project. Fears […]

Centre-left entrepreneur wins 56.69% of vote in stunning and unprecedented rise ‘from nowhere’ Stefanos Kasselakis, an outsider with no previous experience of politics in Greece, has emerged the victor of an electric race to lead the leftwing Syriza, the country’s main opposition party. The Greek-American entrepreneur, who announced his candidacy […]