Dhaka’s Dickensian workhouses should shame us all
A damning study says children in the slums of Bangladesh work over 42 hours a week, often at factories supplying to the west
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The UK was already short of curry chefs. Now the Brexit vote has made it worse
The industry’s trade body believed Vote Leave’s promise that chefs from the Indian subcontinent would be welcome if the UK left the EU. More fool them
Read moreBangladeshi jail ‘cover-up’ as UK journalist faces trial
Britain refuses to release prison report as 81-year-old is held for sedition
Read moreAn insider’s guide to Leicester: if it’s good enough for Richard III …
With the Premier League win and the discovery of a monarch’s remains, it’s been an astonishing few years for ‘the lost city’. Ben Ravilious shows us around the curry pubs, comedy and covered markets
Read more‘London isn’t just one people’: the international families at home in the capital
People from every country on the planet live in London, and one Magnum photographer is on a mission: to capture them all. How do his subjects feel about Brexit and belonging?
Read moreWhy the residents of Barking and Dagenham voted for leave
And why the Mirror group titles soft-pedalled on their support for remain
Read moreThe Observer view on killings in Bangladesh
Unless the Hasina government acts, murderous religious fantatics will destroy the moderate Muslim nation
Read moreRemain campaigners step up efforts to secure ethnic minority votes
Leave camp also targets BAME voters in recognition that they may be crucial in determining outcome of EU referendum
Read moreA reverse Maastricht would be legal and politically feasible
With strong leadership, pro-remain MPs could use their majority to protect UK access to the single market as part of an EU withdrawal
Read moreVictims of forced marriage to receive lifelong anonymity
New legislation in England and Wales will prohibit publication of identifying details from time an allegation is made
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