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...public money. The project I saw in action is called The Big Book Share, and involves prisoners reading and recording chapters of children's books. A CD of the reading is given to their families so that children (and, in the case of some of the women prisoners, grandchildren, nephews and nieces) can listen to a bedtime story from inside. A copy of the book being read is...

...public fascination with crime and the criminal justice system. But how much do jurors get it wrong?...Find out about The Open University's Law courses. From CSI to Law and Order, Line of Duty and Midsomer Murders, there is huge public fascination with crime and the criminal justice system. Especially when things come to a climactic ending and jurors decide on a...

...public awareness of the weavers’ rising of 1826. This includes previously lost eyewitness testimonies from the Chatterton Massacre inquests and over 100 legal depositions that were taken by local magistrates at the time. The interactive map was launched in May 2026 to mark the 200-year anniversary of the rising and aims to contextualise this important moment in British...

...public, makes for uncomfortable politics for any UK government already struggling with allegations of complicity in torture with the USA, where the public is sceptical of involvement in overseas conflicts, and where relations with authoritarian states such as Russia remain – despite hopes of easing relations – tense. That leaves the British government facing three...