29 h. ago In 2026, remember this: Britain is much better than it was in so many ways. Don’t swallow the right’s lies | John Harris

Populists rewrite the history of this nation because they were complicit in much of its ugliness. The progressive fightback must start nowA couple of the more disruptive boys in the class put red laces in their Dr Martens, because someone had told them that was how you showed your support for the National Front. “Jew” was an everyday insult and the N-word was in regular circulation. There were no more than four or five non-white kids in the whole school: I can recall one Asian girl finding her art folder had been covered in racist abuse, and some adolescent desperado singling out a black boy for a spoken version of the same treatment, before insisting that his victim was in on the joke. He wasn’t: he looked at the ground and rushed away, full of the hurt he must have felt every day.This was what it was like in a Cheshire comprehensive school in the early-to-mid-1980s. Teenage racism was there in plain sight, and there was a scattering of people who seemed to take their prejudices – ...

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4 d. ago 'I was being groomed by Fred and Rose West to take place of girl they'd abused and killed'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One of Fred and Rose West's victims escaped to tell her sickening tale of the horrifying time she spent under the UK's most notorious serial killer's roof

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4 d. ago 'I escaped Fred and Rose West's notorious house of horrors after disgusting question'

Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she was groomed and abused by Fred and Rose West before bravely fleeing their home in 1979

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4 d. ago 'Fred West asked me a disgusting question while trying to groom me in his house'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she moved into the home of Fred and Rose West and was being groomed to replace Shirley Robinson before she bravely escaped

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6 d. ago Fred West's twisted relationship with teen who shared bed with killer and Rose

Shirley Robinson was a teenage lodger in Fred and Rose West's Gloucester home, where she became a victim of Fred's manipulation and control before her tragic murder in the 1970s

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6 d. ago Teenage girl who shared bed with Fred and Rose West in sick house of horrors

The serial killer and his wife, Rose, murdered at least 12 women and girls, some of whom were their own daughters

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1 week ago Why notorious killers form sick prison friendships from Rose West ‘love affair’ to child murderers ‘bonded over crimes’

THEY say a person can be judged by the company they keep, but when it comes to 'House of Horrors' monster Rose West, the supply of potential new friends is limited at HMP New Hall. This week, The Sun revealed how the killer remains alone and despised despite her sick attempts to bond with other lags....

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1 week ago 'I fled my abuser at Christmas with my brave little girl and one precious toy'

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. For years, Ivana Ivancakova suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her ex partner. Then, one winter's day, battered and covered in bruises, she grabbed her daughter and ran

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1 week ago Rose West's Christmas in prison includes a 'festive' feast and gift giving

Infamous serial killer Rose West has tried to make friends this festive season by sending them cards and gifts, while tucking into a three course meal on Christmas Day

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3 w. ago Joey Barton dodges jail after 'racially aggravated' social media outburst

Gobby Joey Barton sensationally dodged jail after sharing warped posts comparing female football pundits to serial killers Fred and Rose West

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4 w. ago Joey Barton spared jail for 'Fred and Rose West' rant at Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward

Convicted wife beater Joey Barton has been spared jail for posting "grossly offensive" messages to football pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward and TV presenter Jeremy Vine

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