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Published in:Home: Opinion‘Small boat’ pilot Ibrahima Bah faces life in jail. He’s a scapegoatThose who drive boats are often simply the poorest people on board. Those really at fault still walk free
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Published in:Home: OpinionI am facing my second no-fault eviction in two years. Renting is brokenFour years after ministers promised to ban Section 21 evictions, I am once again being kicked out of my home
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Published in:Home: OpinionHow Keir Starmer placed his political image over the lives of those in GazaParliament descended into chaos over a ceasefire vote that the Labour leader reportedly claimed would ‘endanger’ MPs
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Published in:Home: NewsTory planning reform may have cost England 25,000 affordable homesGovernment wants to allow more office-to-home conversions despite finding majority were poor quality
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Published in:50.50: InvestigationMen’s Catholic order gave secret millions to ‘deceptive’ anti-abortion centresRevealed: Tax filings show Knights of Columbus ploughed at least $10.8m into ‘crisis pregnancy centres’ in six years
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Published in:50.50: OpinionWhy the anti-trans movement is inseparable from the anti-abortion movementThe transphobes who put a target on the back of Nex Benedict, who was beaten to death, are a threat to everyone
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘Your borders, our dead’: remembering 25 years of victims in CalaisAt least 391 people died on the UK-French border between 1999 and 2024. Their family and friends call for justice
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureMigrant suicides in Calais: a border designed to create despairPushed past their limits, these migrants took their own lives at the border between the UK, France and Belgium
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe path to the ‘small boats’ crisis is littered with past deathFortifications elsewhere have made ‘small boats’ the best bet for migrants crossing the channel.
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Published in: Home: OpinionI’m a Citizens Advice worker. This is how bad the cost-of-living crisis has gotThe stories we hear of poverty in Britain are just horrific – and all we have are sticking plasters
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsLabour bars press from secretive lobbying event at Scottish party conferenceExclusive: Party has refused to provide a list of sponsors and attendees at Glasgow forum for ‘high-level’ discussions
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionThe return of the US right’s satanic panic is more worrying than it soundsTwo states’ moves to ban satanic displays are reminiscent of moral panic used to criminalise LGBTQ people in 1980s
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: NewsExperts demand safe routes to UK after 400 people die at the borderRevealed: Average of one death a month for past 25 years despite government spending £800m to stop Channel crossings
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: ExplainerHas the UK ever managed to control Channel crossings?Two decades of deals and hundreds of millions of pounds, but the UK hasn’t ever stopped crossings – or deaths
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureUK border crossings: 20 years of dying in lorries but still ‘no change’People have been convicted for the deaths of migrants in lorries, but people continue to die in them
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Published in: Home: NewsUK won’t say when or if it will restart aid to Gaza despite reports of famineAid is suspended amid allegations about UNRWA. There is no such suspension of arms exports despite evidence of genocide
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe government’s insulting Disability Action Plan won’t deliver any changeMinisters are patting themselves on the back for pulling together a list of vague ideas and research proposals
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeaturePolice violence ‘rarely punished’ at France and Belgium border to UKMigrants trying to reach the UK have been shot, beaten and refused medical care by police. Many never get justice
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationNon-profit behind ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads is main funder for US hate groupThe Servant Foundation has ploughed tens of millions of dollars into the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)
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Published in: Home: NewsAlmost 10,000 social rent homes were lost last year in EnglandMore social rent homes were sold or demolished than built last year, new government figures show
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Published in: Home: NewsWatchdog urged to probe Labour’s failure to declare value of HSBC donationParty accused of breaching Electoral Commission rules by failing to publish value of staffer seconded from banking giant
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionThe next battle in US’s crisis of democracy may be over trans Americans’ IDsFlorida’s move to stop trans people having correct gender on driving licences may lead to clash with federal government
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Published in: Home: NewsArrest rate at ‘openly criminal’ Palestine protests is lower than GlastonburyBraverman’s call for ‘hate marches’ to be banned comes as data shows scant evidence of alleged wrongdoing
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘Reduced to a brawl’: punitive killings in Calais overlookedEthnic rivalries are often blamed when migrants get killed on the border. But sometimes it’s a war over turf
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureDrivers said Eurotunnel was ‘a picture of war’ amid migrant deathsDespite fences and even moats, dozens of people have died trying to get to the UK via the Eurotunnel
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Published in: Home: OpinionFor asylum seekers, religious conversion is an obstacle course, not a loopholeClapham attack suspect Abdul Ezedi’s Christian conversion is under scrutiny. But faith can make asylum claims harder
