Laura Murphy | Professor Laura Murphy says her academic freedom was traded for access to the Chinese student market China waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation directed at a UK university to get it to shut down sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses, documents seen by the BBC show. Sh effield Hallam University staff in China were threatened by individuals described by them as being from China's National Security Service who demanded the research being d
David Lammy seemingly believes Israel and its supporters will always be able to act with impunity – but the status quo surely cannot hold A displaced Palestinian in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, July 2025. Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters A terrible tipping point in Gaza has been reached. The number of people admitted to hospital or dying from starvation has surged . The journalists’ union for Agence France-Presse (AFP) has issued a statement warning that “withou