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Richard Heller: 'Tony Benn's deputy leadership bid was a destructive and unprincipled act'

Comment: Tony Benn was the leader Labour was lucky to lose

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Matthew Flinders: 'Tony Benn was a man of politics but increasingly not in politics'

Comment: Tony Benn was the great communicator of his generation

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Sean Dilley's take on a week in politics

The Week According to Sean Dilley

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Alastair Sloan: 'This is modern slavery, it's happening in Britain right now'

Comment: How the Home Office traps domestic workers in slavery

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John Baron: 'Given our dependence on the sea, as a minimum we should be funding two properly-resourced battle groups centred on our aircraft carriers'

Comment: Defence cuts are now so deep Britain can barely defend itself

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Ed Miliband EU referendum speech in full

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Bob Crow protests outside Oxford Circus station against plans to cut jobs and close ticket offices.

Shock as RMT announces death of Bob Crow

Shock across the political landscape after RMT union announces that leader Bob Crow has died at the age of 52

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Nick Dearden: 'As always, Cameron is dancing to the tune of the City of London'

Comment: Big business and the worldwide assault on democracy

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal being negotiated between the EU and US gives corporations wide-ranging powers over national parliaments, not least through an Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism.

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Clegg puts patriotism at the heart of his spring conference speech

Conference diary: Clegg raises Lib Dem spirits with patriotic speech

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Huppert blames 'rubbish law' for privacy violations

Conference diary: Time for a digital bill of rights?

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Belinda Phipps: It's not just a question of numbers - midwives need to be used more effectively

Comment: What we really need is Call The Same Midwife

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Cable aims for 'credible' immigration position

Conference diary: Lib Dems want public to ‘calm down’ on immigration

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Lib Dem spring conference: For the die hards

Conference diary: Farage haunts Lib Dem gathering

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The Week According to Sean Dilley

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Salmond's currency union dilemma in 30 seconds

WATCH: Scotland’s currency union dilemma explained in 30 seconds

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Carl Miller: 'Make normal people, even randomly chosen people, part of the actual machinery of oversight'

This Is Your Brain Online: We need surveillance juries to keep track of security services

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Christian Berg: The government's role is to be the guardian of our society. Sadly, society is far from guarded

Comment: Hard lessons for Whitehall from the Patrick Rock scandal

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Natalie Bennett: 'Foreign students are worth at least £8bn a year to the British economy'

Comment: Farage’s dream of an English-only Britain would be a nightmare

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Rob Flello: When it comes to obesity, time isn't something we have on our side

Comment: If we don’t act now, obesity will overcome the NHS

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