A bittersweet moment. Thank you The Press Awards for recognising the plight of hundreds of thousands of people who struggle daily with this debilitating and brutal illness

Dr Laila Soueif has been admitted to St Thomas’ hospital. Her blood sugar dropped today to 1.7mmol/L - which is critically low - and she was taken to A&E, where she has now been admitted. We will update again when we can. Today was Day 242 of her hunger strike. We apologize

The brutality of these awful regimes Abdelfattah Elsisi Keir Starmer We are forced to share live documentation of our mother's slow death in one final attempt to get them to recognise the urgency of our situation, reach a resolution, and save her before it is too late! #FreeAlaa

A British businessman is accused of plotting to smuggle sensitive military technology into China and attempting to silence critics of President Xi with Godfather-style threats thetimes.com/world/asia/art…

Must Laila Soueif die from her hunger strike in London before her son Alaa Abd el-Fattah is released? | Helena Kennedy theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Laila speaks to us from her hospital bed, in her own words and then those of Alaa. #freealaa

The Times editorial board weighs in on the case of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist, calling on the Prime Minister to do more to secure his release from an Egyptian jail. Free Alaa thetimes.com/article/0d1c0c…

Such a great investigation by Ali Mitib and Fiona Hamilton exposing a web of Russian operations across Europe. Read on The Times and The Sunday Times how spies have recruited gangsters on social media for a campaign of sabotage and assassinations 👇🏼thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

The arson of an east London warehouse holding aid for Ukraine was the latest in a string of incidents in which Russian spies have recruited hapless gangsters on Telegram to carry out their continent-wide campaign of sabotage and assassinations. The Times and The Sunday Times has spoken to security

BREAKING: The British military is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death - and successive governments have spent years fighting to keep it secret using an unprecedented superinjunction