After 20 years playing around the world, the group had two UK gigs cancelled this year after protests from activists. It’s made them feel targeted for who they are, the band say

Historian and author Rutger Bregman announced as BBC Radio 4's Reith lecturer for 2025.

Without female doctors, women in Afghanistan are being denied medical care – as the recent earthquake made painfully clear

A moment of peril demands a new approach – on everything from funding to the BBC charter, says Pat Younge, former chief creative officer of BBC Television

Some inside scoop on what's happened and why

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#11. John Grindrod meets Municipal Dreams writer John Boughton to explore the expanded and maligned Norfolk town of Thetford and the wonders of white bread.

Sweeping new rules for renting in England receive royal assent - so what is changing?

There’s a lot that could be said about Louis Theroux’s interview with Bobby Vylan, real name Pascal Robinson-Foster, on Theroux’s podcast.

According to the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, the Islamic Republic has carried out at least 1,289 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2025, including 189 executions in the first 23 days of October alone.به گزارش بنياد عبدالرحمن برومند, از ابتداى سال ٢٠٢٥ تا ۲۳ اكتبر دستِ‌كم ١,۲۸۹ مورد اعدام در ايران انجام شده است؛ كه ۱۸۹ مورد آن در ۲۳ روز ابتدايي ماه اكتبر صورت گرفته است.#نه_به_اعدام#اعدام_درايران#حقوق_بشر#stopexecutionsiniran #humanrights

21 October 2025 We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by a targeted harassment campaign against Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City St George’s, University of London, led by a group ca...

The battle over the mandatory hijab in Iran is far from over. Despite the stream of videos showing women walking unveiled on the streets, this defiance does not signal freedom—it reflects enduring, and often costly, resistance to the state’s repressive domination of women.Mandatory hijab enforcement is now increasingly through electronic surveillance, fines, and the shuttering of businesses that serve unveiled women, rather than direct confrontation on the streets. Read more on our website.

For the first time in nearly four decades, Iran is on the cusp of a change of leadership—and maybe even of regime. As Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s reign nears its end, a 12-day war in June ...