The right is trying to rewrite history with its toxic rhetoric on Britain’s rape gangs
Kenan Malik
Girls who have suffered terrible abuse are now being exploited by populists for their own ends
December 2024
2024: what happened next?
‘They thought they were going to die’: the asylum seekers who survived rioters trying to burn down their accommodation
Four months on from the far-right violence that shocked the UK, what happened to the men living in a hotel that was targeted?
Two former Rotherham police officers arrested over child sexual abuse
Offences alleged to have taken place in 1990s while ex-constables, now in their 50s and 60s, were on duty
Rotherham rioter who tried to burn down asylum seeker hotel jailed for nine years
Sentence for Levi Fishlock was joint highest passed down so far for the nationwide disorder over the summer
September 2024
Rotherham man jailed for nine years in longest sentence yet over summer riots
Thomas Birley added fuel to bin fire and threw objects at police during unrest outside hotel housing asylum seekers
August 2024
Brothers jailed for being at forefront of riot outside Rotherham hotel
‘Disgraceful example of a grandfather’ jailed for role in Rotherham riot
Ex-soldier among several jailed over riots in Rotherham and Southport
‘Depraved’ stretch limo driver who raped and abused UK schoolgirls jailed
Politics Weekly UK
Will the threat of arrests be enough to stop far-right violence? Politics Weekly UK
‘A dark day’: anger in Rotherham after riot at hotel housing asylum seekers
Rioters clash with police and damage hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham – video
March 2024
Rare camellias at English stately home bloom again after £5m revamp
Newly restored plant house at Wentworth Woodhouse, home to some of world’s oldest camellias, formally opens as a global teahouse
November 2023
Living hell: Britain’s rent crisis
Residents rise up against damp homes in Little London, Rotherham
Residents who had feared eviction if they complained are uniting to force improvements to estate’s porous concrete housing
September 2023
Rotherham honours Arthur Wharton, England’s first black professional footballer
Observer book of the week
The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life by Theresa May review – blind to her own failings
March 2023
Peer Nazir Ahmed’s jail term for 1970s sexual assault cut by three years
Appeal court judges reduce sentence to six months for buggery of boy when ex-Labour MP was a teenager
February 2023
‘There’s civic pride involved’: the UK acts scoring No 1 albums thanks to regional fanbases
The likes of the Reytons, the Lathums, the Courteeners and Jamie Webster are all hitting big on the strength of local support that isn’t always mirrored nationally – but is it limiting?
November 2022
South Yorkshire village endures seventh week of toxic smoke from industrial fire
Waste stored in Kiveton Park building caught fire in September and is proving difficult to extinguish
August 2022
Coronation Street star Duggie Brown dies aged 82
Rotherham-born actor and comedian played Ted Spear in ITV soap and starred in Last of the Summer Wine
