An inmate in his cell at Feltham young offender institution, 2004. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The GuardianBritain’s young offender institutions are places of misery and violence, and often more dangerous than adult prisons. Indeed, the evidence is clear that criminalising children just causes more crime. By Chris Daw
by Chris DawGethin Jones is a man of wisdom, insight and compassion. He has an insider’s bitter understanding of life in care, youth justice, drug addiction and prison.
TV reviewTelevisionReviewThis delicate, remorseless documentary looks at the apparent coercion, isolation and bullying of the members of Lighthouse – an organisation that made millions from its devotees
You might hope – briefly, and only if you hadn’t been paying attention to the world – that a programme called A Very British Cult was a sitcom, set in the suburbs, based around a sect designed as a cover for a deeply unattractive man to have sex with other people’s wives in a cul-de-sac.
SchoolsTory calls for urgent investigation raise eyebrows as Rye college says no pupil identifies ‘as a cat or any other animal’
UK politics live – latest updates It started off innocuously enough – a leaked snippet of teenage pupils at a school debating whether a person could identify as a cat.
But within days, and thanks to a media frenzy, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer were being asked about the remarks.
SportblogPremier LeagueChelsea and Tottenham managers were engaged in a fierce tactical battle before they squared up to each other
OK. Time for a sit down and a nice cold drink. You know what? They say it’s going to rain on Tuesday. In the meantime Chelsea and Tottenham produced something extraordinary here. This was a steaming, throbbing mosh pit of a game, climate crisis football, pegged out around a series of flares.
Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewSmash open the piggy bank and head for Fallow – the cooking is amazingly inventive
Fallow, 2 St James’s Market, Haymarket, London SW1Y 4AH. Snacks and small plates £7.50-£22, large plates £16-£40, desserts £9-£16, wines from £36
Early on in our dinner at Fallow on London’s Haymarket, a waiter delivers a mushroom parfait to our table and then points up at a shelf suspended from the industrially scaffolded ceiling.
Guns N’ Roses … Steven Adler, Duff McKagan, Axl Rose, Slash and Izzy Stradlin in 1988. Photograph: Icon and Image/Getty ImagesAs they play Spurs’ stadium twice this weekend, we rate the best of the swaggering rock gods, from epic balladry to high-speed juggernauts
by Matt Mills20 Shadow of Your Love (1987)Recorded in 1986 and released a year later, this speed metal gem was released as the B-side of the 12in version of It’s So Easy/Mr Brownstone before being lost to antiquity for 31 years.
Class act … Minnijean Brown-Trickey Photograph: Spirit TawfiqAs one of the Little Rock Nine, she was just 16 years old when she defied racist mobs at the school gates. But, once inside, even the army could not protect her from the hatred of fellow pupils. She looks back on an extraordinary life
by Kehinde AndrewsWhen Minnijean Brown-Trickey looks back at old pictures of 4 September 1957, she remembers the day her courage kicked in.
Movies This article is more than 3 years oldThe Wolf of Wall Street's Jordan Belfort sues film's producers for $300mThis article is more than 3 years oldFormer stockbroker sues scandal-hit production company Red Granite for fraud and breach of contract
Jordan Belfort, the former stockbroker whose story inspired the Martin Scorsese-directed hit The Wolf of Wall Street, is suing the film’s financiers for fraud and breach of contract, and claiming $300m in compensation.
Israel-Gaza war 'Staff are exhausted': doctor describes conditions in Gaza hospital – video Three months of Israeli bombardment and a tightened siege in Gaza have left hospitals across the Palestinian territory facing shortages of crucial medical supplies. The number of people seeking shelter and treatment has increased, putting a strain on already inadequate resources.
A doctor at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis says the health system has 'collapsed' with inadequate medical supplies, beds and exhausted and sick staff
OpinionUK news This article is more than 13 years oldA Titanic mistake we can all learn fromThis article is more than 13 years oldIan JackNew evidence suggests the tragedy could have been prevented. Why has it only now come to light?Like many in my generation I first came across the Titanic's second officer, Charles Herbert Lightoller, in a cinema in the late 1950s. Kenneth More played him in A Night to Remember, which remains the most persuasive filmed account of the disaster, in part because certain qualities of British behaviour in 1912 – dignity, repression - were still accessible as memories to the Pinewood studios of 1958.