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Jamie Bartlett asks if new research into psychedelic drugs will lead to them being accepted as mainstream medical treatment - or whether the...
Extra armed police have been put on the streets of Dublin after two murders within just four days of each other. It's being blamed on a flar...
How did Jimmy Savile get away with it when so many people appear to have known so much? Media and Arts Correspondent David Sillito tracks do...
This drive for changing the way the NHS operates has been frequently used by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt as the reason why a change to juni...
The New Hampshire primary is the first proper vote of the American Presidential election. Finally, after all the debates, polls and bluster,...
Lord Bramall, a former head of the British army, has now been told he will face no further action by the Metropolitan Police following thirt...
Tommy Robinson was the most high profile figure in the English Defence League. Then he apparently abandoned his hostility towards Islam and...
It was a death in Britain like no other seen in living memory. The gaunt and agonised face of the former Russian security service officer, A...
Should Labour MPs be scared of Jeremy Corbyn-supporting movement Momentum? The group says it is attempting to build on the the groundswell o...
In 2014 the prime minister said that Afghan security forces were now ready to take over from NATO to secure Afghanistan. Yet 2015 was the mo...
How do you go about trying to change a person's fundamental beliefs? And how do you decide who is in need of state intervention to do so? Pu...
Thousands of migrants are stuck in Vienna, their journey to Germany cut short. Will they ever realise their European dreams? Frances Stonor...
Peter Oborne investigates claims that Britain and the West embarked on an unspoken alliance of convenience with militant jihadi groups in an...
In September, Elliot Johnson, a 21 year old member of the youth wing of the Conservative Party took his own life. He left behind a note sayi...
David Cameron says seven terrorist plots have been thwarted in the UK this year alone. Mass casualty attacks, like those seen in Paris, are...
The inquiry into the UK's involvement in the Iraq war started 6 years ago - and there's still no sign of a report. Political columnist Peter...
In June of this year, presenter of Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Jenni Murray, underwent an operation which removed 75 per cent of her stomach. A...
The 'pink pill' flibanserin has been called 'the female Viagra', but critics argue its benefits are few and side effects many. Melanie Abbot...
Greece's future in Europe dominated headlines throughout the summer, but can the country turn its fortunes around? While it's true that the...
British writer, Cedric Belfrage, avoided prosecution after passing top secret documents to Russia in World War Two. But was he acting under...
What has The Archers got to do with the price of milk? Lesley Curwen looks at the present crisis in dairy farming through the prism of the l...
Máiría Cahill was Irish republican royalty. So it sent shockwaves through the republican movement when she spoke out last year about the sex...
More than two million people in Britain are thought to have used electronic cigarettes. Whitehall civil servants think that e-cigarettes are...
The gun attack on the beach resort of Sousse that killed 38 tourists in June deterred many holidaymakers from travelling to Tunisia. But not...
Left winger Jeremy Corbyn is tipped to win Labour's leadership contest. How has he garnered so much support in a party which has spent the l...
The charity Kids Company and its charismatic founder Camila Batmanghelidjh have endured weeks of negative headlines. Reporter Simon Cox inve...
Peter Marshall uncovers the real story about the fight for control of the RSPCA. This summer the charity elected its new ruling council. As...
In June, the High Court ruled that the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation was liable for sexual abuse committed by one of its members. The Wat...
Crystal Meth, GHB/GBL and Mephedrone form what some health workers call an 'un-holy trinity' of drugs that together can heighten arousal and...
Aid is pouring in to Nepal in the wake of the earthquake. But in a country where corruption is endemic, will the money go where it is meant...
Why drug resistance is now regarded by the UK government as one of the most severe threats to public safety. Peter Marshall reports. Produce...
City banker, Svetlana Lokhova, is awarded a £3 million payout for sexual harassment at work. Her former employer, Sberbank CIB (UK), is appe...
How Satanic abuse accusations in a North London suburb went global, but turned out to be untrue. Melanie Abbott investigates. It's members a...
Britain's sharia councils are to be reviewed by the government. Reporter Jenny Chryss investigates Islamic law in the UK and asks if sharia...
EU sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine expire in September. Sharmini Selvarajah looks at whether it is in Britain's security...
Amanda Knox has been cleared for a second time of murdering British student Meredith Kercher at the cottage they shared in Italy in November...
Tony Blair was appointed Special Representative to the Middle East peace Quartet just hours after leaving Downing Street in June 2007. The g...
The Daily Telegraph's political commentator Peter Oborne resigned in February 2015, accusing the paper of shying away from stories that migh...
There is no link between saturated fat and heart disease, according to a recent report in a respected scientific journal. So why has officia...
Anti-Semitism in the UK: Simon Cox investigates the changing face of prejudice against Jewish people after recent lethal attacks in Paris, C...
Ahmed Merabet was one of three police officers killed in the recent terrorist attacks in France. All were honoured as heroes, but it was Ahm...
Germany's new anti-Islamisation movement, Pegida, is attracting a middle-aged, middle class following to its weekly marches around the count...
Shortly before Christmas the Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate published an extraordinary and explosive document, universal...
Former jihadi Aimen Dean gives a unique insight into the workings of Islamic State. Dean left school in Saudi Arabia to fight jihad in Bosni...
A feminist campaign group has criticised the Crown Prosecution Service for prosecuting women suspected of making false accusations of rape....
Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt has caused controversy by arguing that private schools that don't have partnerships with their stat...
Suspected suicide bomber Kabir Ahmed left Derby to fight for IS. He is the second Islamist extremist in a decade to travel from the small su...
The fatal explosion of a Virgin Galactic space plane at the end of October 2014 was a major set-back to Sir Richard Branson's dream of a flo...
In the 1980s, Right to Buy was one of the landmark successes of Margaret Thatcher's government, enabling millions of council tenants to buy...
Tesco is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office over an alleged black hole in its accounts. Simon Cox tells the story of Tesco's bi...