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"The ineptness would be laughable if the consequences of their incompetence were not so appalling for vulnerable people."

Government cuts to supported housing could force services to close

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"Activists and commentators have spent the ensuing weeks arguing over who it was that drove the Leave vote"

A tale of two Brexit Britains

*Blog

"The current uncertainty surrounding PrEP is literally putting lives at risk"

There’s a whiff of homophobia surrounding the PrEP debate

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"At the current rate of reunification, it will take a year before all the unaccompanied children in Calais are reunited with their families in the UK."

No more child refugees should die trying to reach family in the UK

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"There are other means of generating enough power for our future needs, many of them much greener"

Hinkley Point is just another vanity project – Theresa May should ditch it

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"Labour needs to have the courage to take a stand and stop reproducing a false narrative that breeds hate and xenophobia"

Labour is doomed if it apes the right on immigration

*Comment & Analysis

Jeremy Corbyn surrounded by supporters outside Parliament

No a ‘Corbynite takeover’ didn’t cause Labour’s loss in Totnes

The real story behind the Twitter storm

*Comment & Analysis

Festival-goers handed over drugs samples to test for dangerous and toxic ingredients

How one patch of grass became the UK’s first ever decriminalised drugs space

Drugs testing tent at Secret Garden Festival points towards bold new direction for UK drugs policy

*Comment & Analysis

'It is no good just to be against things – we need an alternative plan that we can sell to the public'

Unlike Corbyn, Owen Smith can turn Labour’s radical agenda into reality

*Comment & Analysis

Are sellers of medical cannabis products breaking the law?

Are Cannabidiol (CBD) products really legal in the UK?

*Comment & Analysis

'Jeremy Corbyn is offering the country a new consensus'

Labour MPs should get behind Jeremy Corbyn or get out

*Blog

"The majority of those in poverty now live in working households"

In-work poverty is the real crisis facing Theresa May

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"There is a clear difference between the free voicing of an opinion and the online harassment of people you don't like"

Free speech shouldn’t give a free pass to the online mobocracy

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"Like other Conservative MEPs, I bumped into Boris from time to time but we pro-Europeans were not grist to his mill"

Boris’ shoddy journalism invented British euroscepticism

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"If the economy starts to take a broader hit to jobs growth and investment then the impact on housing could be more prolonged"

What Brexit means for house prices

*Blog

"The NHS is now caught between a rock and a hard place"

What Brexit means for the NHS

*Blog

"I will most likely raise a wee dram over the weekend to the fascinating yet fleeting era of justice secretary Gove"

So farewell Michael Gove… we’ll miss you

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"Those in prostitution should be decriminalised. But the men - and it's almost always men - who create the demand and pay for sex should be criminalised"

Selling sex should be decriminalised – but we still need to crack down on the buyers

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"The prime minister must guarantee her commitment to tackling climate change is not being downgraded in any way"

What Brexit means for… the environment

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