Priti Patel urges MPs to back controversial policing bill

20 February 2022 by Sarah Jones

Home Secretary Priti Patel has written to MPs urging them to back controversial legislation that was mauled by peers, which argues that too many criminals are “getting off” with light sentences while the bill is in limbo. The House of Lords inflicted a string of defeats on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill last … Read more

Inside China’s controversial mission to reinvent the internet

29 August 202228 March 2020 by Martin Joseph

On a cool day in late September, half a dozen Chinese engineers entered a conference room in the heart of the United Nations district in Geneva with a radical idea. They had an hour to convince delegates from more than 40 countries of their vision: an alternative form of the Internet, to replace the technological … Read more