Hundreds have been victims of the legal doctrine Joint Enterprise over the past 30 years. We spoke to one: John Crilly, who subsequently left prison and would go on to help subdue the London Bridge attacker in 2019.
There are now 32,000 e-petitions on the UK government’s site – have any actually made a difference?
Biden’s emergency global Covid summit yesterday needed to deliver billions of vaccines – but he, and other leaders fell well short.
The Many Saints of Newark is a different kind of prequel, one that enriches the original series’ mythology.
The development of new technology is accelerating rapidly – what will the effects be on our way of life?
The founder of Evergrande, China’s largest property developer, once attended the politburo’s annual legislative conference, the largest Communist gathering in the world, wearing a slick black suit with a gold-buckled Hermès belt. Xu Jiayin became known as “belt brother”, the poster child for the country’s new “crazy rich”. Now, almost a decade on, he’s fighting to save his conglomerate from a collapse that could shock the world’s markets.
Attacks wreak havoc on our personal lives and national infrastructure. In a digital world, we are more at risk than ever.
The e-petition site set up by the coalition government is ten years old. To mark the occasion, we’ve sifted through its earliest, biggest and strangest petitions to discover… does it make a difference?
And so, too, did other Western leaders. Yesterday’s global Covid summit had to deliver billions of vaccines – but fell well short
The government is right to identify the “Britishness” of certain television shows – but wrong to claim that this elusive combination of wit, class consciousness, camp and generosity of spirit can be produced by design
Tortoise has received leaked documents that reveal more of the country’s position in international laundering networks. At the same time, the government is trying to loosen financial regulations
We need to get the world vaccinated as fast as possible. We’re in an arms race: vaccines vs variants. That’s why we’ve launched our Vaccine Tracker along with a campaign to vaccinate the world by the end of next year.
Streaming giant Netflix has bought the rights to children’s author Roald Dahl’s stories. Is this the start of a new cinematic universe?
It wasn’t until 2016 that Iceland saw their side play in a major tournament for the first time. And one Icelandic family in particular have played a starring role. So how did the Gudjohnsen’s come to dominate the sport across the nation?
The looming energy crisis erupted this week – gas prices rocketed and more energy suppliers went bust. So why didn’t we see it coming?
When the founder of the popular game Candy Crush bought Derby County, heads turned. But a string of hiring and firing multiple managers, breaking transfer records, and overspending didn’t pay off.
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In the run-up to COP26 in Glasgow, Tortoise – in collaboration with members and a network of coalition organisations – is running a programme of ThinkIns and journalism devoted to accelerating net zero.
By the time we get to the conference, we want to have an agenda with a difference.
Join us as we ask whether New Labour succeeded in its mission to change Britain. What, in the end, did it get right?
Public awareness of issues relating to neurodiversity in general has improved in recent years, but has all that awareness translated into meaningful change, especially in terms of medical treatment, for autistic people and their families?
How do the shifting boundaries between fact and fiction, news and drama reshape our relationship with journalism, and with history? If journalism is the first draft of history, is TV drama now the finished article?
At a time when women’s rights across the world are increasingly under threat, why is feminism eating itself alive? What can be done to bring everyone together?
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That’s when the prime minister has said an independent inquiry into the government’s response to Covid will begin. Here at Tortoise, we felt the need was far more urgent – and so, last Autumn, we held our own.
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