Week News

• The Guardian view on lockdown law: democracy must keep up

• The US Capitol riot risks supercharging a new age of political repression

• Government rejects report it will lower workers' rights post-Brexit

• For 50 years, zero tolerance to drugs has failed – yet Britain refuses to change

• Other lives Andrew Williamson obituary

• Coroner's Covid findings stoke calls for inquiry into pandemic policy

• UK free to make trade deals with genocidal regimes after Commons vote

Month News

• 'McMafia' banker's wife will have £22m seized unless she reveals source of wealth

• Trump's Blackwater pardons an affront to justice, say UN experts

• Sir Jim Ratcliffe-owned hotel chain fined over minimum wage

• Doubts emerge in US over future of Assange extradition case

• Ground rent scandal: leaseholders in England and Wales get new rights

• A British judge said US prisons are dangerously inhumane. Sadly, she's right

Year News

• Knife crime at record high as overall charge rate falls

• Families call for inquests into deaths of Vietnamese migrants

• Hong Kong journalists and lawyers scramble to adapt to security law

• Regulators investigate elite London law firm Mishcon de Reya

• UK rebuked over failure to enforce Troubles court rulings