Authoritarian governments are extending their pursuit of critics far beyond their bordersForty-five years ago, the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was killed in London with a poison-tipped umbrella as he made his way home from work. The horrifying case transfixed the British public.So transnational repression is not new, including on British shores....

A new survey revealing that three-quarters of readers of books for teens are over 18 has one message: read anything you like – but readChildhood has meant many different things over the centuries. The transitional years of adolescence, in particular, have come a long way since they just meant smaller, cheaper, more biddable adults capable of factory...

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Bernie Evans bemoans the party’s centre-right policies and lack of radicalism to really inspire voters. Plus letters from Lyn Dade, Keith Flett, Jimmy McCluskey and Dr Mark Wilcox Keir Starmer’s party has not only, as Jonathan Freedland says, sought “to reassure Tory switchers” that they have nothing to worry about, in doing so it has remoulded itself...

Shyamol Banerji responds to an article by Mihir Bose on the country coming to terms with its colonial pastMihir Bose’s experiences in the UK resonate somewhat with my own (I came to Britain from India, fulfilled a dream, and I say this: we’re a great country, but a work in progress, 30 April). In 1966, as a 14-year-old, I arrived at Tilbury Docks on...

The scheme ignores the reality that those desperate enough to cross the Channel are willing to accept risks, write Jamie and Debbie HawkerGiven that only a small percentage of asylum seekers are likely to be deported to Rwanda (Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation, 28 April), we might expect that those initially chosen...