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Samantha Walker-Roberts’ nightmare began when she was groomed online aged 12 by a man posing as a teenager. After months of messaging, the predator, a 34-year-old former teacher, abused her in his spo

Kicking my knee out, my foot sliced through the air before gliding back down. It was 2009 and after eight years of arduous training, karate kicks were now second nature to me. But this was the moment

Introducing the winners of our Amazing Women Awards 2025, in partnership with NHS Charities Together

Cuffed, kicked, and camera in hand — David Hoffman’s new book Protest! is the result of 40 years documenting the fight for rights and the force against it. Peter Dench finds out more

WHAT d’you reckon, sir?” Sergeant Winner sidled up to his long-time inspector with a worried look. His grey eyes swivelled towards a swelling crowd of newspaper men. Under an early-morning sky which t

In 2000, Banu Mushtaq was subject to a fatwa for saying that it was not Islam itself that prohibited women from entering certain mosques, but the patriarchs of those mosques. Today the writer, lawyer