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'If the UK is in the position where it has to use these weapons then the deterrent has failed.'

Comment: Trident is a child’s security blanket

*Comment & Analysis

The supreme court dismissed a challenge to the law on assisted suicide last week

Comment: MPs don’t need to change the law on assisted suicide

News

Voters are now more worried about race/immigration issues than the economy

Immigration replaces economy as voters’ biggest worry

*Comment & Analysis

George Osborne: Very good at digging holes

George Osborne’s ‘northern powerhouse’ speech in full

*Blogs

Nick Clegg told he looks like "a spat-out smartie"

The Week in Review: A terrible secret about Nick Clegg

*Comment & Analysis

Jane Fae: "The problem is not just the original comment but the entire let’s-call-it-a-joke-and-move-on culture."

Comment: Michael Fabricant’s ‘throat-punch’ tweets are an object lesson in silencing women

News

Ed Miliband: 'genuinely sorry' for Sun endorsement

Ed Miliband’s Sun endorsement ‘will not happen again’

Labour leader ‘genuinely sorry’ for posing with the paper.

*Comment & Analysis

Christopher Goodfellow: The government's claims to be balancing the books don't stack up.

The coalition will leave more debt than all Labour governments since 1900

The government’s claims to be balancing the books don’t stack up.

*Comment & Analysis

Migration cap has impacted on number of international students in the UK

Comment: Are restrictions on international students hurting the UK?

News

Nigel Farage: Under pressure

Nigel Farage faces jail threat for undeclared donations

*Comment & Analysis

Manizha Naderi: Afghan women are counting on William Hague

Comment: Hague’s plan to end sexual violence in conflict must include Afghanistan

News

David Cameron and Alex Salmond: Better apart?

Anything but Dave: Scots back independence under Cameron

*Comment & Analysis

Andrew Copson: 'Children have the right to a broad and open education tailored to their development as a whole person'

Comment: The cost of failing to address the place of religion in our schools

*Comment & Analysis

Chris Magee: 'The biggest losers if cat research were banned would be cats'

Comment: Don’t be fooled by daft celebrities. We need to experiment on cats

*Comment & Analysis

Veep stars Julia Louis-Drefus as a vice-president called Selina

Competition: Win Veep Season 2 boxset!

*Comment & Analysis

Symon Hill: We need to expose the truth about certain Christian groups that are happy to ally themselves with far-right politics

Comment: The far-right’s god-whistle politics isn’t going away

*Comment & Analysis

Becky Jarvis: We need real recall more than ever

Comment: This recall bill is an utter stitch-up

*Comment & Analysis

Allan Hogarth: 'The muzzling of Vanunu seems to be about revenge'

Comment: Why is Israel stopping Mordechai Vanunu coming to London?

*Comment & Analysis

Daisy Sands: Kirstie Allsopp should have tried to open up the debate about what women can be, not shut it down

Comment: Don’t tell me what a ‘successful woman’ looks like

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