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Why Deadly Prison Gangs Are More Powerful than Ever

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Prison gangs have evolved into powerful organisations that maintain control of their criminal enterprises from inside jail. Before the 1950s, prisons in California were small, and prisoners had a set of rules they lived by. It was known as the ‘convict code’.

Since then, prison populations have grown. With so many new faces who didn’t know the code, the rules have been rewritten, resulting in an explosion of violence.

So how have these gangs become so influential, despite their freedoms being curtailed by the state?

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Is Labour at War with Liberals Over Asylum Reform?

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Shabana Mahmood brings Blue Labour values to the Home Office, but can the human rights lawyer in Keir Starmer hold the line? Also, after last week's episode unleashed chaos in Westminster, we look at the anatomy of a briefing war and the chancellor's sudden u-turn on income tax. And today's scoop: how the Corbynite left is eating itself while Zack Polanski is eating their lunch.

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Can Nigel Farage Learn from Trump's MAGA Revolution?

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Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are two populist leaders separated by an ocean but now united by a similar political strategy. Trump has transformed the Republican Party and been elected twice as US president. Farage has become one of the most influential politicians in Britain and his party, Reform UK, has had a seismic rise and created a political earthquake.

But how has Farage achieved this?

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Can the BBC Survive? I The Story PODCAST

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After the resignations of two of its most senior members of staff, the BBC is being questioned over allegations of institutional bias.

Donald Trump has threatened to sue the organisation, and with negotiations about the continuation of the BBC’s funding model underway, where does it leave our national broadcaster?

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Inside the Hunt for Syria’s Strongman Leader I Times Documentaries

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In December 2024, a lightning rebel advance sweeps into Syria’s capital Damascus, toppling the brutal Assad regime and ending half a century of dictatorship. At the centre of it all - Ahmed al-Sharaa. Once a designated terrorist with a 10-million-dollar bounty on his head – now the man steering Syria’s uncertain future. Nearly a year on and he’s formed an interim government, shaken hands with President Donald Trump and seen the majority of crippling sanctions lifted.

But beneath the headlines, the country is restless.

A crippled economy and violent clashes between government forces and religious minorities threaten to unravel fragile gains.

Oliver Marsden, The Times correspondent, has travelled to Syria to discover who Ahmed al-Sharaa really is.

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Is Britain's Military Ready for War? I Times Opinion

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Britain's military is officially preparing for a possible war in Europe. The UK's latest National Security Strategy openly talks about "the possibility of the UK homeland coming under direct threat” in a wartime scenario. Britain hasn’t embarked on a strategy like this since the Cold War ended over thirty years ago.

Ukraine, of course, has been living through exactly those scenarios for the past three and a half years. However, Britain’s defence chiefs are deeply uneasy about something else, whether everything from cash machines to the health service or control of our air space could be kept going.

For three decades, we’ve assumed that a full-scale war simply wouldn’t reach our shores.

And because of that, we don’t have clear answers to some very uncomfortable questions.

How would hospitals handle mass casualties and could the power grid stay online under attack?

And how would we even find and train enough people to keep fighting if things truly escalated?

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THE STATE OF IT PODCAST

Why is Rachel Reeves Refusing to Announce a Tax Rise?

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Before the election, Rachel Reeves said she wasn't going to raise taxes on working people. Well, guess what? It looks like that's exactly what she's about to do. We reveal the measures the treasury is considering. And even the Labour whips are talking about a spring leadership challenge.

Could a former leader make a comeback?

And is Keir Starmer's Terminator demeanour helping or hindering him?

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How the Huntingdon Train Attack Unfolded I The Story PODCAST

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On Saturday evening, passengers on a train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross suddenly found themselves in the path of a man wielding a large kitchen knife. In the terrifying minutes that followed, there were scenes of horror and acts of bravery.

So what happened, could the attack have been prevented, and can passenger safety be improved?

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Reporting Inside Ukraine's Deadly "Cauldron of Pressure"

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For three and a half years, BBC correspondent James Waterhouse was the face of the Ukraine war, reporting nightly from Kyiv through air raids, blackouts, and breaking news. In this episode, he joins Tom and Patrick to reflect on the mental and emotional toll of years on the frontline, the strange adjustment to life back home, and the addictive intensity of war. From the first hours of Russia’s full-scale invasion to the blurred battle lines of today, he offers a rare insider’s view of a conflict that continues to redefine modern combat.

A gripping conversation about technology, trauma, and the personal cost of telling one of the world’s hardest stories.

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How an IRA Bombing Mission Turned into Catastrophe

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On Remembrance Sunday in November 1987, an IRA bomb exploded in the Northern Irish town of Enniskillen, killing 11 people and claiming a 12th life when one of the many wounded later died. The Times’s Mario Ledwith returns to his hometown, asking who carried out these bloody murders, how the authorities failed to properly investigate and why a silence continues to surround what happened?

Families of those killed have spent almost 40 years searching for justice and accountability. While ten people have been arrested by Northern Irish police in connection with the bombing, and one person was rearrested in 2016, nobody has ever been charged.

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