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"The sense that overall UK policing is missing the point altogether is hard to shake."

Police must tackle the surge in racist attacks before it’s too late

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"Theresa May was not suddenly converted into a crackdown on immigration because of her analysis of the referendum results"

Liberal Leavers and Remainers must unite against hard Brexit

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"It is through these deals that Fox will eradicate the 800-year-old British commitment to equality before the law"

Liam Fox’s TTIP and CETA support shows he has no intention of ‘taking back control’

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"The evidence that the scheme causes unlawful discrimination is out there"

Making landlords into immigration officers only encourages discrimination

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"No legal manoeuvring means the UK can avoid its obligations to make sure soldiers operating abroad don't carry out human rights abuses such as torture"

British soldiers shouldn’t be above the law

*Comment & Analysis

Refugees pray at a makeshift church in the Calais camp. French authorities plan to demolish the so-called Jungle.

Britain must rescue children from the Calais Jungle before it’s demolished

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"A child could find themselves with a very different entitlement to care and support to their friend in a neighbouring town."

Councils to be allowed to opt out of child protection laws

Child protection could soon vary wildly across the country

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"It implicitly argues that violence should drive policy"

Rachel Reeves’ comments on immigration could encourage hate attacks

Her comments effectively blame the victims of attacks

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"It's time we collectively reinvent the way we deal with disabilities and the workplace"

I’m Broken, Britain: Reinventing welfare for the disabled

*Comment & Analysis

The first past the post electoral system is designed for the monolithic politics of the past

The left will struggle to win again under our voting system

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"An undemocratic method of passing an undemocratic trade deal. We only have six months to stop it."

Opposition to the Canada-EU trade deal has reached a tipping point

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"Next year all families newly claiming means-tested benefits, will lose £10.45 a week"

The cost of a child: Theresa May must reverse cuts to family benefits

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"The cells are small, averaging six by eight feet, and built for single occupancy, but they often hold two or even three inmates"

Memo to the minister: If you care, this is what life is actually like in prison

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"The circumstances surrounding Hinkley have changed significantly since the initial plan."

Theresa May has ignored all the evidence against Hinkley Point

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"It is a scandal of huge proportions that our government keeps delivering a message on medicinal cannabis which is false."

The fight for medical cannabis passes a watershed moment

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"This review is using an incomplete register from December 2015 – ignoring the more than two million people who have registered between then and June"

Five reasons the boundary review is deeply flawed

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"Allowing faith schools to apply 100% discrimination is therefore a gargantuan step in the wrong direction"

Allowing faith schools to exclude all non-believers will only push communities apart

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"New figures released this week show that 25 women in the city were murdered as a result of domestic violence in just 12 months."

With violence against women rising, these cuts will put lives at risk

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"It is commonplace for disabled people now to be offered incontinence pads when they are not incontinent as a replacement for support to use the toilet"

The closure of the Independent Living Fund has been disastrous for disabled people

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