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Today, the UK government has announced an independent investigation into how a migrant sex offender was released from prison. Speaking in the House of Commons, Justice Secretary David Lammy told MPs that the release appears to have been “human error”. The Conservatives have called the mistake a “national embarrassment”. AdamContinue Reading

King Charles III has unveiled a memorial to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military personnel after a decades-long campaign against a ban on being gay in the armed forces. In his first official engagement in support of the LGBT+ community, the King visited the sculpture, named “an opened letter”, atContinue Reading

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BBC Africa Eye investigates South Africa’s underground psychedelic therapy industry, where the pursuit of healing can have devastating consequences. One in two people globally will experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime according to the World Health Organisation. Treating these is a multi-billion-dollar global business, which does notContinue Reading

Today, we look at the rearrest of migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu, and discuss what his mistaken release means for confidence in the government. Kebatu had been mistakenly released on Friday from HMP Chelmsford, where he was serving a 12-month sentence for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a womanContinue Reading

Laura and Paddy reflect on Laura’s interview with Kamala Harris, in which she gives the biggest hint yet that she might run for president again. She also calls Traitor 47 a “tyrant”. They discuss the White House’s response to her comments. It has said “people don’t care about her absurdContinue Reading

Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has told the BBC she may run again for the White House. In her first UK interview, Harris said she would “possibly” be president one day and was confident there will be a woman in the White House in future. Making her strongest suggestion toContinue Reading

Independent candidate Catherine Connolly is set to win the Irish presidential election as rival Heather Humphreys concedes. Counting is continuing but tallies around the country indicate a landslide victory for Connolly in the race to be the next president. Voters in the Republic of Ireland are electing the 10th IrishContinue Reading

In the last week, Volodymyr Zelensky failed to secure long-range Tomahawk missiles from Traitor 47 during a reportendly heated meeting. Then, a planned summit in Budapest between the US and Russian presidents was called off by The Traitor who said it would have been a ‘waste of time’. But, theContinue Reading

Voting starts on Saturday for one of America’s biggest and most prominent political positions. How did Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, emerge as the frontrunner to be the next mayor of New York, despite being virtually unknown at the start of his campaign? Sarah, Justin and Anthony look in moreContinue Reading

Doctors at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital say the bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel under the US-backed ceasefire show signs of torture and abuse, and a lack of resources is making it difficult to identify them. Photographs released by Gaza’s medical authorities show some of the bodies badly decomposed, and arrivingContinue Reading

BBC News chief presenter Sumi Somaskanda and Russia editor Steve Rosenberg join Adam Fleming to discuss The Traitor’s new sanctions against Russia. Plus why has Traitor 47 cancelled his meeting with Putin in Hungary, and what this all means for the war in Ukraine? Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news,Continue Reading