Mark Stewart has been cross-pollinating sounds since his time with The Pop Group, always freighted with an abrasive political attitude, and the splendid The Politics of Envy simply ratchets that process up a few notches.

Judith Weir's rare failure is an inner-city Cinderella story that never lifts off ... unlike the kebab van

Civilian mediators have been sent into prisons across Britain to dissuade senior gang members from organising tit-for-tat attacks on rivals to prevent violence spreading on the streets of the capital, the head of the project has told The Independent.

Anti-gang police made more than 500 arrests in a three-day blitz on London's crime network.

A schoolboy sports enthusiast died in a pool of blood near a crowded playground after being stabbed in daylight by another youngster.

Britain's prisons and young offenders' institutions do not have the policies in place to deal with the influx of young gang members who will be locked up in the coming months, according to a damning report given to ministers a year ago.

Home Secretary Theresa May hit back at senior police chiefs over political criticism of their initial riot response, insisting it was her job to tell forces "what the public want them to do".

The former New York police commissioner who is to advise the Government in the wake of rioting across England believes crime-fighting solutions that have worked in America can also work in the UK.

Ian Burrell explores the backgrounds of the London rioters

Police are seeking three teenage boys in connection with the murder of a 16-year-old, who died from a single stab wound to his neck.

In 1991, David Simon's non-fiction book Homicide: Life on the Streets lifted the lid on the Baltimore Police homicide squad. In 2006, Roberto Saviano's bestseller Gomorrah cast light into the murky Neapolitan underworld. Now a British author is set to do the same for our law enforcers and criminals after two years working with Britain's top police forces.

Bikram Yoga makes me feel 19 again I used to go on tour, get shit-faced after gigs then pass out. Now I just perform, and the next morning I'm like, "Where's the nearest yoga studio?" Physically you see a lot of changes, but it's the energy I have that's so amazing. I did an early-morning session recently and Ozzy [Osborne] was there and I thought, "Who would have thought 10 years later we'd be in a yoga studio at 7am?"