Hicham Yezza, a University of Nottingham member of staff, faces the threat of deportation to Algeria. On June 2, he was forcibly moved to the Citadel detention centre at Western Heights, near Dover. Yezza and Nottingham student Rizwaan Sabir were both arrested on May 14 under the Terrorism Act 2000. Robert Stevens reports.

Over the past decade, the private sector has been utilised to step up attacks on the welfare state and to profit from providing services. The Welfare Reform Act is one such example of Labour’s neoliberal tendencies argues Robert Stevens.

Cuts in the UK’s science budget will cause the closure of key scientific programmes and facilities writes Robert Stevens

The Government is making further cuts in state funding for higher education – and encouraging business to fill the gap. Robert Stevens reports.

Robert Stevens on the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s recent announcement of severe cuts to the budgets of critical physics research and astronomy projects in the UK.

Britain’s bosses have just raked in a record £26.4 billion in bonuses, writes Robert Stevens, the financial sector taking the lion’s share.

Robert Stevens on recent British “friendly fire” deaths in Afghanistan.

A week of saturation policing of the peaceful environmental protest at Heathrow Airport concluded on Sunday with a series of brutal attacks on those involved in the Camp for Climate Action, writes Robert Stevens.

Only now, in response to the devastating floods, has the government stated that the flood defence budget will actually increase, writes Robert Stevens – a move that follows years of underfunding and cuts in the flood-defence budget.

The flooding disaster that struck villages, towns and cities all over Britain in June has been met with callous indifference by the Labour and the Environment Agency, writes Robert Stevens.

Britain’s Immigration Removal Centres have become notorious due to the desperate conditions facing immigrants and asylum-seekers detained there.

Nick Broomfield’s Ghosts, about the fate of undocumented Chinese workers in the UK, is a harrowing and honest depiction of modern slavery, writes Robert Stevens.

UK Energy Review – a policy made by big business

This is the first of a two-part series examining the Blair government’s review of UK energy policy.

Government faces rising anger over jobs cut in National Health Service.

Private capital and the crisis in the National Health Service.

Council of Europe report reveals European collusion with US torture flights.

More evidence of British collaboration with CIA torture flights and prisons.

A detailed look at the Guardian/Chomsky Affair

British government and security agencies seek to legitimise torture.