Comment: Struggling fathers shouldn't blame themselves

Lord Bates: we are all too conscious of our failures to speak out on the fatherhood issue

After Father's Day, many of Britain's Dads will be feeling inadequate. Here's why they shouldn't.

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Comment: We need to fight Facebook's smut unilateralism

Jane Fae: What we define as sexual, and what we define as undesirable, matters greatly

Facebook happily hosts the softer end of 'smut', while equally happily removing pages dedicated to breastfeeding. We should be able to debate what smut gets blocked online.

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Comment: I'm trying to challenge Prism – not help it

Sarah Ludford: 'It is only thanks to the Liberal Democrats that NSA-type powers were blocked in the UK'

Politics.co.uk reported that I was watering down peoples' right to control their personal information – but I'm just trying to help create a reliable data control system.

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Comment: Why won't Britain stand up to fascism in the Baltics?

Keith Morgan: 'Sir, you have been sucked in big time'

An appalling political change is taking place in eastern Europe, but Britain's cowardly ministers don't have the bravery to address it.

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Comment: This puritanical attack on electronic cigarettes will cost lives

Ian Dunt: 'An industry which is just bubbling into life will face a damaging new regulatory regime'

The government is intent on crippling an industry which has shown huge success in getting people off cigarettes.

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Comment: MPs need to realise we just don't need HS2

Joe Rukin: "By not investing in ultra high speed rail in the last few years, the UK has dodged a bullet"

No matter how big the question marks over the HS2 project get, the government seems even more determined to push the project through. The only way to apply the brakes is for MPs to be responsible.

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Comment: Mainstream UK politicians should challenge Farage's populism

Crin Antonescu: The majority of Romanians who come to the UK are ready to work

Britain and Romania can benefit from a closer relationship - but mainstream politicians need to challenge Ukip's populism first.

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Comment: More passengers, lower costs, more politics

Alex Burrows questions the balance between affordability and quality following the ORR's periodic review

Alex Burrows examines the balance between affordability, reliability and quality following the publication of the ORR's Periodic Review.

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Comment: Time to rekindle the coal industry

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Coal has traditionally been criticised as a fuel source - but new clean coal technologies could be better for the UK than wind or solar power.

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Comment: More renewable energy doesn't mean less emissions

UK, lowest emmisions, Europe, EU, Germany, carbon reduction, renewable energy, European Environment Agency

Carbon reduction targets, not a slavish devotion to renewable energy, is the real answer to the European energy riddle.

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Comment: Yeo has been hiding in plain sight for years

Alex Stevenson: As soon as money becomes a factor, a politician's views become tainted

Tim Yeo has two motives when it comes to his energy work: saving the world and personal gain. The two, always incompatible, are now completely unacceptable.

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Comment: How Europe stops Theresa May splitting up British families

Ian Dunt: 'For years we have laboured under a poisonous immigration debate which ignores all the benefits and acknowledges only the problems.'

Europe stands up for British people's rights against our own government.

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Comment: We have to tell the truth about women GPs

Anne McIntosh, MP Thirsk Malton and Filey, NHS, female doctors, motherhood, 111 telephone service, GPs

My comments on female GPs were treated as controversial, but medical experts recognise that they pose a significant organisational risk to the proper running of the NHS.

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Comment: Doctors' abortion impunity needs tackling urgently

Parliament, on-demand abortions, abortion, abortion bill, NHS, doctors, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, Jill Knight

Doctors are pre-signing abortion agreement forms is not what the government intended when it passed the abortion act in 1967.

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Comment: The Christian case against gay marriage

Katrina A Prentice: 'Many of our laws today are based on the ten commandments'

Marriage existed before the state or parliament - but politicians still see fit to change it.

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Lib Dem diary: Snoopers' return

Charlotte Henry: 'Nick Clegg has continually vetoed the deeply illiberal measures'

Clegg's fighting off a new push for the snoopers' charter - but can he hold the line against the Home Office?

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Comment: The danger of private companies spying on British schoolchildren

Jeff Gould: 'When data mining is done for profit, the relationship between the data miner and the consumer is simply a market transaction'

Without firm action from schools, private firms could be about to start data mining our children's online activity.

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Comment: British Muslims need to address extremism

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With their rich history and growing population in the UK, British Muslims have a duty to address extremism and radicalisation in its community.

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Comment: Britain's slippery spies deserve intense scrutiny

Woolwich Attack, Drummer Lee Rigby, MI5, MI6, Malcom Rifkind, Michael Adebolajo, 'Snooper's Charter', Interception of Communications Act 1985, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, RIPA 2000, Inquiries Act of 2005

The murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last week, prompts up politicians' agenda to pass a 'snooper's charter'.

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