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The choice to name Sergeant Martyn Blake – the police officer who took the fatal shot which killed Chris Kaba – has placed him and his family in intolerable danger.

This week a jury acquitted Sergeant Martyn Blake of Chris Kaba’s killing. In the days since, the press have predictably characterised Kaba as a criminal, in attempts to validate his killing. Reports fail to mention that Blake did not know who was in the car when he shot a visibly…

The former president actually said that the wages of US workers are ‘too high’. And that’s far from the worst

No American who cares about the future of this country can afford to remain a mere spectator to our own democracy

This would be a horrific program of ethnic cleansing – yet most of the media reaction has focused on the economic costs

Myths about the madness of crowds, long propagated by politicians and the establishment, have been overturned by new research, says writer Dan Hancox

The archbishop has admitted his connections, but must go further. Backing the campaign for reparations would be a start, says author Alex Renton

Like Brexit, our vote on Europe teetered on a knife-edge. While the pro-EU side scraped a win, Russia is waiting to undermine it, says Paula Erizanu, a Moldovan journalist and writer based in Chișinău

While the Tories harp on about the ECHR or the ‘woke bureaucracy’, Rachel Reeves will get serious about public investment, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr