53 h. ago Miscarriage of justice watchdog chief quits after public confidence ‘badly damaged’

Karen Kneller resigns from Criminal Cases Review Commission, heavily criticised for bungling of Andrew Malkinson caseThe chief executive of the miscarriage of justice watchdog for England, Wales and Northern Ireland has resigned after serious failings in the case of Andrew Malkinson.Karen Kneller, who had held the position since 2013, has left her job at the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) after one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history, it was announced on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Labour's botched welfare cuts 'target the wrong people', with rising numbers still signed

Labour's welfare cuts were branded 'calamitous' yesterday for targeting the wrong people and failing to tackle root-and-branch reform.

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9 d. ago Tice calls for justice watchdog to act when petitioners say sentences too harsh

‘Even noble, experienced, wise judges can get things wrong,’ Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice told the Commons.

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1 week ago Bob MacIntyre is Mr Salvage at the Travelers as he shows the world US Open heroics are only the start

Scottish star fights back to finish level on the day ahead of final round in Connecticut

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2 w. ago America made a catastrophic mistake with the Iraq war. Is it about to repeat it in Iran? | Stephen Werthheim

If the United States joins Israel’s fight to try to finish Israel’s job, it will enter into a war of unknowable scope against a country of 90 million peopleTwo decades ago, as Americans debated whether their country should invade Iraq, one question loomed the largest: did Saddam Hussein possess weapons of mass destruction? If so, the implication was that the United States should disarm and overthrow his regime by military force. If not, Washington could keep that option in reserve and continue to contain Saddam through economic sanctions and routine bombings.In time, the implications of the Iraq war far exceeded the boundaries of the original debate. Saddam, it turned out, had no weapons of mass destruction. But suppose he had possessed the chemical and biological agents that the war’s advocates claimed. Invading his country to destroy his regime would have given him the greatest possible incentive to use the worst weapons at his disposal. The war would have been just as mistaken — ...

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2 w. ago Remove decisions on lone child asylum seekers from Home Office, report says

Call for root-and-branch reform of treatment of children, many of whom are wrongly classified as adults Decisions relating to lone child asylum seekers should be removed from Home Office officials because of fundamental problems with the way they treat this vulnerable group, a report has found.The report calls for root-and-branch reform of the treatment of thousands of children who have fled persecution in their home countries and made hazardous journeys in search of safety, often crossing the Channel in a dinghy or concealing themselves in the back of a lorry. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Andrew Malkinson vows to continue campaign for reform after 17 years wrongfully jailed

‘I haven’t finished. I want to change a lot more,’ Mr Malkinson said

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3 w. ago Andrew Malkinson says fight to reform miscarriage of justice cases far from over

'It's a good feeling that something so dreadful and tragic is leading to real change'

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3 w. ago Innocent man who spent 17 years in prison for rape he didn't commit ‘not finished’ fighting

Andrew Malkinson, 59, spent 17 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of rape. His conviction was quashed in 2023, but he says his fight for justice is not over

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3 w. ago Andrew Malkinson ‘not finished’ fighting for reform after wrongful conviction

The 59-year-old had his conviction overturned in 2023 after years protesting his innocence.

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3 w. ago Reform Civil War: Now Richard Tice says chairman who quit was WRONG to oppose burka ban

Richard Tice said Zia Yusuf, who plunged Reform into chaos after resigning, had worked 'incredibly hard' and helped the party win hundreds of seats in last month's local elections.

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4 w. ago Labour byelection win shows ‘SNP’s balloon has burst’, says Anas Sarwar

Scottish Labour leader accuses SNP of misinformation in its campaign and attacks Reform’s ‘dirty’ tacticsUK politics live – latest updatesScottish Labour’s surprise byelection win proves “the SNP’s balloon has burst”, a jubilant Anas Sarwar has said, after the popular local candidate Davy Russell defied predictions to beat the incumbent Scottish National party and fight off Reform UK’s “racist” campaigning in the central Scotland seat of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse.Sarwar told a victory rally in Hamilton town centre on Friday morning that Labour had proved everyone wrong following speculation that Reform UK might push it into third place, as the rightwing populist party gained ground in Scotland for the first time. Continue reading...

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