Letter: Former Conservative minister Norman Fowler disagrees with one current cabinet member’s description of her administration as ‘true cabinet government’
May 2022
Boris Johnson faces backlash after pushing former Met chief for NCA role
Lady Diana Brittan and ex-MP Harvey Proctor say Lord Hogan-Howe, who oversaw Operation Midland, should be ruled out
September 2021
Victims of police malpractice call for Met chief to be replaced
Group signs open letter criticising decision to extend Cressida Dick’s term in office by two years
February 2021
Leon Brittan’s widow intensifies attack on Met over false sex abuse claims
Lady Brittan says senior officers must be held accountable for inquiry sparked by testimony of a fantasist
August 2020
Vanessa Engle on Carl Beech: 'I didn’t want to tell the story of a liar at the expense of genuine victims'
The filmmaker explains why her documentary about the fantasist jailed for making false child sexual abuse allegations is vital in the era of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter
October 2019
Priti Patel to order third review of police handling of Carl Beech
New inquiry would reportedly look at Met’s response to earlier investigation into its failings
July 2019
The real Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson's support for EU revealed in Leon Brittan letter
No 10 frontrunner wrote ‘pro-European letter’ to Tory peer’s widow a year before campaigning for leave
May 2018
Former MP sues Met over Westminster child sex abuse investigation
A damages claim totalling more than £1m also launched against source of disproved allegations
February 2018
After the lessons of the 1990s satanic abuse panic, why was ‘Nick’ believed?
Catherine Bennett
The horror film tortures supposedly inflicted in Dolphin Square point up our continuing gullibility
September 2017
Met police pay compensation over Operation Midland raids
Widow of Leon Brittan and former army chief Edwin Bramall reported to have received about £100,000
July 2017
Thatcher overruled minister to keep Moors murderers locked up for life
Letter released by National Archives reveals PM disagreed with her home secretary’s advice on parole for Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
November 2016
Leon Brittan's widow 'let down' by Met over dropped rape inquiry
Lady Brittan says she was saddened that officers failed to tell her husband the inquiry had been dropped before he died
October 2016
Cliff Richard says he is 'forever tainted' by abuse allegations
Singer, 76, tells House of Lords event that he will never regain the respect and confidence he had before being wrongly accused
August 2016
Greenslade
Zola Budd, the Daily Mail and a case of chequebook journalism
Roy Greenslade
How Zola Budd passport row reached the top of Thatcher's government
February 2016
Leon Brittan's widow receives apology from Met police chief
Lady Brittan accepts Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe’s apology and submits 30 questions regarding sexual abuse allegations
Open door
Reporting on historical sexual abuse allegations requires great care
Chris Elliott
Open door: The challenge for journalists is to be fair to those who come forward with the allegations and to those, living or dead, who are the subject of those allegations
Suspected sex offenders have rights the police must respect
Bernard Hogan-Howe
Met 'failed to tell Brittan family' of rape inquiry review publication
Scotland Yard launches inquiry into its handling of abuse allegations
