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THE JUSTICE TRAP: Why the Miscarriages of Justice Watchdog is in Crisis
Jon Robins on the case of Oliver Campbell and what it reveals about our creaking criminal justice system.

Russia Didn’t Need to Hack Votes to Help Elect Trump – It Hacked Voters’ Minds Instead
By overstating the threat, or continually pushing the idea, that Russia hacked votes in the 2016 US presidential election, we may be playing right into our adversary’s hands

Ignore the Squealing Landlords, Rent Control offers the Chance of a Better Society
Tom Cordell on why the Mayor of London's plans to control private rents in the capital could be the revolution required to break through the housing crisis.

While Austerity is Intellectually Dead, it is Far from Over in Reality
Jonathan Portes on why ideology, short-termism and a relentless focus on Brexit has resulted in economic hardship continuing in the UK long after the Coalition Government.

Electing Trump was About White Supremacy Not ‘Making America Great Again’
CJ Werleman on the US President's worrying attempts to gain support by tapping into deeply-rooted anxieties and prejudices concerning race.

Australia's Journalism Crisis is Threatening its Democracy
With Rupert Murdoch’s chosen government waging a war on journalists in Australia, democratic values in his country of birth are in peril, writes CJ Werleman.

The Diary of a Homeless Man
Canadian Drew B explains his experience of sleeping rough in London and his battle on the streets against being deported.

Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Brexiters' Persistent Myths of Empire
Britain has not really faced up to losing an empire and the unresolved cost is playing out through the traumas of Brexit.
THE JUSTICE TRAP: A Miscarriage of Justice is a Lifelong Sentence
The injustice of how our justice system deals with its own errors was a key theme at the launch of Proof magazine this week.
'We would Rather Die Now than be Kept in Here Forever' – Life Inside a Saudi Detention Centre for Rohingya Refugees
CJ Werleman documents his conversations with Faisal Thar Thakin, a Rohingya Muslim who has been held in the kingdom's notorious Shumaisi detention centre for the past six years.
The Myths of Immigration Just Don't Add Up
Jonathan Portes, Professor of economics and public policy at King's College London, on why the UK has long been a country shaped by immigration and immigrants – and how the reality of this is not as bad as the rhetoric portrays.
'Jirga' Provokes New Thinking on War and PTSD
CJ Werleman speaks to the Australian filmmaker Benjamin Gilmour about his new film Jirga.
Divide and Rule: ‘Colonial Mindsets Fuelling Islamophobia and Racism’
Hardeep Matharu speaks to Tahir Butt, a Muslim campaigner who spent nearly 30 years in the police, about his experience of racism and identity.
PORTLAND VIOLENCE: When Fascists Become the Anti-Fascists?
CJ Werleman on what the reaction to the violence in Oregon reveals about the rising threat of fascism in America.
"They think they have No Choice but to Take their Own Lives" – The Shame of Australia's Manus Island Must End
CJ Werleman explores what it will take to shift the Australian Government's controversial policy of sending refugees from Asia and the Middle East to offshore detention facilities.