Ciaran Jenkins

1 week ago | channel4.com | Ciaran Jenkins

We spoke to Peter Williams, a former Merseyside Police inspector who lectures in policing at Liverpool John Moores University.

1 week ago | channel4.com | Ciaran Jenkins

We spoke to Ian Byrne, the Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby.

1 week ago | channel4.com | Ciaran Jenkins

A newly released report says that the UK is at risk of further waves of rioting unless the government acts to tackle the underlying causes. Assessing the nature of the riots that followed the Southport stabbings in which three girls were killed last summer, the Race Equality Foundation says there was a breakdown in the response at a national and local level. We spoke to Jabeer Butt, who is the group’s chief executive.

3 weeks ago | channel4.com | Ciaran Jenkins

The talks in Turkey were supposed to involve the presidents of Ukraine, Russia and possibly the USA. And they were supposed to usher in peace, or at least a ceasefire. Instead, Russia sent some low level officials while Vladimir Putin remained very much at home. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has travelled to Turkey but dismissed the Russian delegation as merely “decorative”. The Russian foreign ministry in turn called him a ‘loser and a clown’.

3 weeks ago | channel4.com | Ciaran Jenkins

One of the government’s big announcements was that decision to end visas for people coming to the UK to work in the adult social care sector. So, how reliant is the UK on migrant care workers?