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Candidates verifying votes at the Croydon council elections last week

‘Dumb’ people shouldn’t be allowed to vote says former Tory councillor

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Richard Heller: "A chance to protest against the political class without the toxic associations of voting for UKIP."

Comment: The Green Party are now the real threat to Labour

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Frances Crook: "A prison within a prison, for children with children."

Comment: The government’s plans to lock up girls with their babies

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Richard Berry: Disenfranchising so many people is "unforgivable".

Why moving house means you could lose your vote

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Keith Tayor: Three parties "fanning the flames of migrant bashing and Ukip voting."

Comment: Three main parties to blame for rise in immigrant-bashing

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McMillan-Scott: "David Cameron’s claim to be acting in the British interest is plainly risible."

Comment: Cameron’s EU alliance is about to crumble

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Sadiq Khan: 'This is another example of the Tory-led government elbowing civic society aside and shows a justice secretary unfit for the job'

Comment: Grayling is burying his head in the sand over rape in prison

Justice secretary Chris Grayling’s decision to close down a Howard League prison sex investigation is the latest example of his hostility to pressure groups

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Police walk around anti-abortion placards outside the Marie Stopes clinic, the first private clinic to offer abortions to women in Belfast.

Comment: The court abortion ruling which puts Northern Irish women at risk

A bar on Northern Irish women getting free abortions on the NHS means only the rich can plan their family.

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Paola Uccellari: This is about life and death for children

Comment: Children’s lives at risk in Grayling’s new prison

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Carl Miller: 'Citizens are looking more like journalists every day'

This Is Your Brain Online: Is trolling Putin’s secret weapon?

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Phil Scullion: Miliband's policy will guarantee your rent increases

Comment: Why Miliband’s rent cap will make your rent increase

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Frances Crook: 'Twenty years ago people were less willing to talk about being sexually abused.'

Comment: Police need to investigate Portland prison for historic sexual offences

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Jeremy Clarkson should not have to resign, says Gove.

Michael Gove defends Jeremy Clarkson in racism row

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Pawel Swidlicki: Ironically the rise of the 'malcontents' could strengthen integration

Comment: Why Euro elections could kill Cameron’s renegotiation hopes

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Carl Miller: 'Many organisations attempt to tighten control: producing wooden, legalistic tweets that read as if each has been written by a committee'

This Is Your Brain Online: The NYPD Twitter backlash

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WATCH: Prime minister’s St George’s Day message

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Carl Miller: 'Mainstream politics increasingly feels, to many people, remote and irrelevant to their everyday lives'

This is your brain online: How Twitter could combat voter apathy

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WATCH: Suing the state – hidden rules in the EU-US trade deal

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