Alex Dean

London

Deputy Editor, Education at The Economist

Deputy editor of the education division @theeconomist. Formerly managing editor @prospect_uk. Views own

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Hands off our minds

Sep 6, 2023 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Alex Dean

Fifteen years ago, a young Indian woman named Aditi Sharma made criminal justice history. She had been engaged to be married when she abandoned her fiancé to elope with another man. Six months later, when her ex-partner was found dead, Sharma and her new love, Pravin, were accused of murder. They had, a court in Mumbai heard, poisoned her ex with arsenic. The evidence was circumstantial and the police needed more to convict, so both suspects were given psychological testing.
Slippery Starmer?

Aug 7, 2023 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Alex Dean

Earlier this year, a special immigration tribunal handed down a decision in the case of Shamima Begum. The background to the case is well known: aged 15, Begum had travelled from the UK to Syria to join the Islamic State. When she later resurfaced in a Syrian refugee camp—having since married an IS fighter and lost three children—the then home secretary Sajid Javid revoked her British citizenship and banned her from entering the UK.