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England's political future will be shaped by the outcome of the Evel debate

Comment: English votes for English laws will weaken the Union

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Nicola Sturgeon is getting rather good at baiting David Cameron

Pick of the week: Sturgeon’s clever tricks

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Nottingham town hall wants more powers

Comment: Setting our cities free to grow

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Snoopers' charter: Smuggled in through the backdoor

Comment: They’re smuggling the snoopers’ charter into law – but we don’t even need it

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Justice secretary Chris Grayling has acted to systematically blunt charities' campaigning activities

Comment: The squeeze on charities is slowly crushing the third sector

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The eurozone crisis continues - but the poor must not pay the price

Comment: Greece gives EU the chance to rediscover its social mission

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The new slavery: Domestic servitude thrives under new visa rules

Comment: Is domestic slavery in Britain worse than Saudi Arabia?

A little-heard of change to visa rules in 2012 created a slave class among Britain’s domestic workers

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Skiing in Davos, where the World Economic Forum meets this week

Why we must reject the dangerous delusions of Davos

When you scratch the surface of the Davos narrative, things soon start to fall apart.

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Shaker Aamer has been held in Guantanamo Bay for nearly 13 years without trial.

Shaker Aamer’s case is a test of the Anglo-American commitment to liberty

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After terror comes a backlash against our freedoms

Pick of the week: After the attacks

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Fox News: Security 'expert' Steve Emerson prompts mockery in Britain over Muslim no-go claims

Comment: The myth of Muslim no-go areas is being used to turn us against one another

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The contaminated blood scandal is perhaps one of the last great scandals of the state which hasn't been satisfactorily dealt with

Comment: How the government escaped responsibility for the contaminated blood scandal

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Protesters demonstrate in Madrid in 2011 over reform of collective bargaining. The use of statutory instruments is steadily reducing public influence over British governments.

A war on democracy: How statutory instruments replaced acts of parliament

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Rounds of depleted uranium shells lined up on USS Missouri

Comment: The MoD’s nonsensical faith in depleted uranium

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A young Syrian refugee flees from Homs

Comment: Britain’s betrayal of Syrian refugees

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Merkel and Cameron's relationship will be tested by his party grouping in the European parliament

The embarrassing link between Cameron and Germany’s anti-Islam movement

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Philip Hammond lent his support to arms sales efforts in Bahrian

Comment: Arms sales trump human rights as UK enters Bahrain

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Nick Clegg faces a new threat as he strives to hold his seat in Sheffield Hallam

Miliband to target Clegg on 2015 campaign trail

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Ed Miliband election campaign launch speech in full

Ed Miliband election campaign launch speech in full

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