The HCDA, which sought to expose police corruption and violence, was secretly monitored for a decade Undercover officers secretly monitored a community organisation that sought to expose wrongdoing and corruption in the Metropolitan police, the spycops public inquiry has heard. Previously secret reports show that the Hackney Community Defence Association (HCDA) in east London and its key organiser were monitored by police spies for a decade. Continue reading...

The National Emergency Briefing was held on in Westminster Central Hall on the 27th November. Eight leading experts, chaired by Professor Mike Berners-Lee, gave a concise, high-level and unfiltered br...

The Irish Wildlife Trust supports the Bill to Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland. We are calling for a free vote for all TDs on this Bill. It is an amendment to the Animal Health and Welfare Act (2013) which ...

Exclusive: A group of Labour MPs has written to the government calling for Housing First to be rolled out nationwide as part of the upcoming homele...

The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI

Political deal reprieves fragile government, but undermines president’s signature economic policy

Exclusive: Homelessness charity planning to buy properties as it can no longer rely on access to social housing ‘Similar pressure to London’: the housing crisis reaches Newcastle The homelessness charity Crisis is going to become a landlord for the first time in its 60-year history, saying the housing crisis in the UK has reached a “catastrophic scenario”. Matt Downie, the charity’s chief executive, said it was preparing to launch a fundraising appeal to buy its own housing stock as it can longer get access to social housing to help homeless people. Continue reading...