| Barely a month has passed recently without serious concerns being raised about our prisons. Today we cover the latest damning report, this time of the Serco run Doncaster prison, which found many prisoners were too scared to leave their cells. With reported widespread violence, drugs and gang activity, who could blame them?
Elsewhere we bring you all the latest on the London mayoral race. All eyes were on Sadiq Khan this morning as he published his manifesto. We report that if elected to City Hall, Khan says he would sell Boris Johnson's controversial water cannon, which are currently sat unused in a storage unit in Kent, after the home secretary refused to licence them.
And despite Khan's heavy criticism of the closure of ticket offices on the London Underground, a look at his manifesto shows he is not committing to re-opening any of them if he becomes the next mayor of the capital.
We also look at today's planned Rhodes Must Fall march in Oxford. Critics of the movement claim that it is a threat to free-speech, with the students who are leading the protest having been compared unfavourably to authoritarians in the Chinese government. Our next piece today argues that actually the opposite is true and that rather than stifling free-speech the students are challenging political complacency.
Finally, staying on the subject of free speech, in our latest video we hear from Malia Bouattia from the NUS on why she believes safe spaces are so important. | 
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