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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

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

Obesity will become a £50 billion a year problem within 30 years – and in the meantime, it could bankrupt the NHS

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Paul Smyth: 'To become a true force in domestic British politics it is imperative Ukip's centre of gravity shifts from Brussels to the UK'

Comment: Ukip takes its eye off the prize

The party’s obsession with Brussels means the local elections could slip through its fingers

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Sources inside No 10 say they are "shocked" by the arrest

Shock in Downing Street after No 10 adviser arrested over child porn allegations

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Betiel Baraki: The printed press are guilty of double standards on child sexualisation

Comment: The press are guilty of double standards on child sexualisation

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Boris Johnson's call seems to reflect the wishes of the intelligence services

Boris: Extremist parents are child abusers

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Ed Miliband sets out how he will reform Labour's union link

Ed Miliband’s special conference speech in full

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Liam Crosby: 'A more detailed look at the personal, experienced, human impacts of welfare reform is urgently needed'

Comment: Cameron’s ‘moral’ welfare reform doesn’t bother with the wreckage it leaves behind

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Godfrey Bloom: 'What we are dealing with is a massive global Enron style accounting scam'

Comment: Don’t be fooled – our economic woes haven’t gone anywhere

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Anna Matthews: 'The superior UK expertise and acknowledged leading position may disappear forever'

Comment: Why won’t taxpayer-backed Network Rail buy British?

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Edward McMillan-Scott: 'Putin's strategy is long-term, but he is assured of continuing in power until 2018'

Comment: Cameron’s EU policy plays into Putin’s hands

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Christopher Goodfellow: 'Ukip insists it's still on the march but national support levelled off at around 12% over the last eight months'

Analysis: Has the lack of Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants burst the Ukip bubble?

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Jim Barrington: 'Despite claiming scientific evidence to support the hunting ban, no research has been forthcoming'

Comment: The ban on hunting harms animal welfare

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Over 500,000 requests for private data made by the state every year, it's emerged

‘Another stitch-up’: Snooping state makes half a million private data requests every year

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