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"We are already seeing the backlash against Heard: The accusations. The sneers. The flagrant disbelief"

Amber Heard and the ‘perfect victim’ myth that prevents women speaking up

*Comment & Analysis

"The book follows the tradition of Hannan's pin-up Enoch Powell"

The Brexiteers bible: What Daniel Hannan’s ‘Why Vote Leave’ leaves out

*Blog

"The Church presents a challenge: come be a part of a community you cannot curate. It can be awkward and uncomfortable. It is often beautiful"

Those who applaud the decline of the church will miss it once it’s gone

*Blog

"Being a radical today relates as much to who you are as to what you think"

The left’s obsession with identity politics causes a new injustice

*Blog

"If my generation are serious about democracy then we must broaden our tolerance"

Safe space fiction: University tries to censor student’s ‘offensive’ short story

*Blog

"Our rulers also handed our banking system to people who could neither value or even understand it – and then made us pay when it crashed"

The EU debate is a referendum on the failures of Britain’s ruling class

*Blog

"Many female prisoners have a history of trauma, mental health problems and have suffered poverty, homelessness and domestic abuse"

Women shouldn’t be forced to seek refuge inside a prison

The current approach to women prisoners isn’t working

*Blog

"Social cleansing is an ugly and unnecessary process that cannot be allowed to continue"

Destroying Britain’s council estates will not solve the housing crisis

There are solutions to the housing crisis but the government’s Housing and Planning Act isn’t it

*Blog

"It is unsurprising that the Leave campaign have put immigration at the centre of their argument for Brexit"

Think Brexit would mean lower immigration? Think again

*Blog

"While Natalie was great at rallying the troops, she also had a tendency to over-sell our prospects"

‘Nice but naive’: Natalie Bennett’s successor must make the Green Party a credible choice

*Blog

"Some 36,000 properties in and around London are owned by secretive offshore companies"

If Brexiteers are so concerned about sovereignty they should be challenging rich foreign investors

*Blog

"Adult campaigners grumble that focusing on test results is at the expense of "children's happiness and joy of learning"

Stop whining about Sats: Mollycoddled children will turn into hyper-sensitive students

*Blog

The Act will come into force on May 26th

The Psychoactive Substances Act is about to become law – let’s make it as hard for them as possible

*Blog

"There's the question of who the SNP will co-operate with in order to pass annual budgets and other important pieces of legislation"

Now the SNP must work with parties it spent years humiliating

*Blog

"Popular opposition to TTIP is entrenched right across Europe"

Opposition to the toxic TTIP deal has reached a tipping point

*Blog

"Why is it so hard to accept that women enjoy sex and can make informed decisions about their own bodies?"

Labour’s authoritarian wing is cracking down on sex workers

*Blog

"The left-wing arguments are almost always framed as an attack against the infinitely mutable umbrella of Zionism"

This is how modern Britain does anti-Semitism

*Blog

"Prison doesn't work and short sentences work worst"

Latest shocking figures show we need urgent action to tackle the prison crisis

*Blog

"Over the course of the miners' strike it was the narrative of 'picket line violence' which dominated broadcast news"

Battle of Orgreave: Hillsborough verdict gives hope to campaigners

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