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Comment: If you support gay marriage, you must support civil partnerships for straight couples

Ian Dunt: 'Gone are the days of 'separate but equal'.'

The government can't have it both ways: Either no-one wants civil partnerships or they will cost lots of money. It can't be both.

Comment: Heterosexuals, not gay couples, are undermining marriage

Comment: If you oppose HS2, you have to vote Ukip

Comment: We support the right to die - but not for Paul Lamb

Comment: Don't blame politics for Britain's Eurovision flops

Dr Eurovision: "What looks good on paper doesn't necessarily translate into votes"

Voting blocks do exist, but don't use them as an excuse when the UK crashes and burns.

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Lib Dem diary: Tory traumas have been hilarious

Charlotte Henry: "Watching the Conservatives relive the trauma of the late 1990s all week has been a bizarre and, quite frankly, hilarious experience."

Watching the Conservatives relive the trauma of the late 1990s over Europe all week has been a bizarre and, quite frankly, hilarious experience.

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Comment: The future is bright for MPs leaving prison

Matthew Ashton: 'The last few years has seen a small avalanche of MPs standing in the dock'

We're so used to MPs going to jail that we already know how their career progresses when they get out. Hint: better than yours would.

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Comment: Our society excuses road crimes, but they kill us just the same

Amy Aeron-Thomas, Executive Director of RoadPeace

Failure to guarantee justice for road deaths and injuries makes a mockery of other areas of government policy to get people out of their cars and walking or cycling. It is now time to truly put all victims at the heart of policy.

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Comment: HS2 is going ahead, but the battle for hearts and minds continues

Alex Burrows, head of transport and infrastructure at Insight Public Affairs.

With two bills dedicated to it, High Speed Rail 2 is firmly on course, but the debate is still about perception rather than facts.

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Comment: The coalition fiddles while the planet warms

Donna Hume: 'Hardly anyone believes the energy bill is fit for purpose.'

The energy bill nestled in the Queen's Speech is another victim of coalition tit-for-tat trading.

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Lib Dem diary: A boring Queen's Speech... but at least we got to see Grayling in tights

Charlotte Henry: 'There really was little of excitement in the 872 words delivered by Her Majesty.'

Two highlights of the Queens Speech: She said 'cyberspace' and Chris Grayling wore tights.

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Comment: The probation service is a success story - so why is Grayling privatising it?

Ian Dunt: 'Community sentencing provides a much higher success rate than custody'

What do you do with a public service which is enjoying considerable success? Privatise it, of course.

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Queen's Speech 2013 comment: Cameron offers another damp, right-wing sigh

Ian Dunt: 'Flaccid right-wing politics isn't even funny to watch'

Cameron does enough to alienate centrists but not enough to placate his backbenchers.

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Comment: Britain needs to apologise for Balfour declaration

The Palestinian Return Centre embarks on a campaign and petition to receive an apology from the British government for the Balfour declaration.

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Comment: Big Tobacco's victory over plain packaging will get more teens hooked

Andy Lloyd: 'It's important to stress the massive public support for doing more to stop children from smoking.'

The government shelving plans to impose standardised packaging for cigarettes is a major disappointment. The arguments from Big Tobacco against them simply don't hold up.

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Lib Dem diary: We've proved Nick Clegg isn't toxic

Charlotte Henry: 'Yesterday alone, activists made 55,000 phone calls to potential voters'

The media predicted a Lib Dem wipeout, so how come we're picking up seats?

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Comment: Politicians and stupid voters just don't get each other

Alex Stevenson: There is something flaccid about local politics in this country.

Politicians are paying a price for suspecting many voters are more stupid than they are.

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Comment: What future for Britain's surveillance laws?

Surveillance laws are not about absolute. There needs to be a balance between protecting protection and privacy.

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Comment: Cameron faces a human rights test when Dubai comes to town

Allan Hogarth : 'It is vitalcommercial diplomacy does not come at the cost of staying silent on human rights'

Three Brits claim to have been tortured by authorities in Dubai. Cameron must raise their case in this week's UAE visit, or he'll be putting business above human rights.

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Comment: Families need help to survive the age of austerity

Suzanne Hall & Peter Grigg: 'As savings buffers are eroded and relationships tested, families need to be given the tools to regain control over their futures.'

In the age of austerity, families are struggling. More needs to be done to help them survive the tough economic climate.

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Comment: Ukip are much easier to defeat than the Tories imagine

Des Brown: 'Ukip is to the Conservatives what the far left is to Labour.'

The central flaw of the party's policy platform is this: They don't really like Britain.

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Comment: Labour doesn't have the guts to challenge Osborne on welfare

Ewen Speed is a sociologist and co-editor of the blog 'Cost of Living'.

Unless Miliband issues a distinctive challenge to the debate on welfare reform he will allow the right to dominate the argument.

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Lib Dem diary: Have we got our Nick Clegg back?

Charlotte Henry: 'Nick Clegg - the liberal–to-his-fingertips leader I'd pounded streets, knocked on doors, and been criticised on TV for - reappeared.'

After a difficult few months, it's nice to agree with Nick again.

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