UK citizens were 13th on the integrity list of 18 nationalities, with only 58 per cent reckoning to be honest.

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Citizens’ movements have played an important part in cleaning up general elections in several countries. Brian Lightowler charts their development from 1988 to the present day.

Brutal honesty and an unswerving commitment to his ideals have driven Letlapa Mphahlele into areas most people would turn away from in horror—and onto an extraordinary journey of reconciliation. He talks to Anthony Duigan.

Laurence Cockcroft is chairman of Transparency International’s UK chapter and a member of TI’s main board.

Prof Richard Whitfield argues that we must get our relationships right if we are to give the next generation a fair chance in life.

Finlay Moir’s attitude to his son changed when he asked his own father for forgiveness.

Over the last six years, the Asylum Seekers Centre in Melbourne, Australia, has distributed over A$250,000-worth of aid.

Petty vandalism was on the rise in our village, Bradley in Yorkshire. Teenagers hanging out on the street by our one village shop were becoming an increasing concern. Milk bottles were smashed and letterboxes were rattled. Bikes played ‘I dare you to hit me’ with cars.

The people of Lithuania, the biggest of the three Baltic states, are the first former Soviet subjects to vote to join the European Union.

Canadian novelist and newspaper columnist David Jenneson was just 18 in August 1967, when he had an experience that was to play a major role in his life.

Einar Engebretsen drove his teachers to despair. 30 years later he discovered why.

If there were a media Richter scale, the New York Times’ Jayson Blair affair might well have set a new shock record. The Times’ disclosure of how for years Blair, 27, deceived and tricked his readers and editors alike sent shock waves through media across America and doubtless the world. He was accused of widespread plagiarism, falsification of information and of using datelines to create the impression he’d done on-the-scene reporting when he hadn’t. The revelations not only brought Blair’s resignation but also those of the executive and managing editors.

Sandy and Caz Hore-Ruthven visit a tourist trap with a message.

What makes a community? Why do some communities feel threatened? Is ‘one Wales’ possible?

In each period of history, words or expressions have appeared that have stirred, excited and polarized people. The classic examples are ‘liberty’, ‘equality’, ‘fraternity’—the watchwords of the French Revolution.

These people—often whole families fleeing oppressive regimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and elsewhere—risked everything to reach our peaceful and democratic land.