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Jane Fae: 'The media silence over secret courts is deafening'

Comment: Undercover police can have sex with their targets – but you’re not allowed to know about it

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Nathan Dabrowski: 'Migrant deaths throughout the Mediterranean region are more common than anyone admits'

Comment: Migrants deaths in the Mediterranean are not just a tragedy – they’re a massacre

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Richard Heller: 'Threats by politicians to journalists' careers are an abuse of power'

Comment: What do I have to do to get Mandelson to threaten me?

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Kaya Suleyman: 'Political cowardice of this kind is coming at a huge cost to the public'

Comment: Naloxone could save thousands of lives. So why is the government restricting it?

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John Baron: 'To increase the chances of success, a private members bill must have as few amendments as possible.'

Comment: The EU referendum bill could be the Act that sank in sight of shore

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Diane Abbott discusses the future for the British Left

WATCH: The future of the Left

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Richy Thompson: 'It'sdifficult for one body to try and simultaneously evaluate hundreds of school applications from across the country'

Comment: How free schools allow creationists to teach our children

By opting out of the national curriculum, creationists and other pseudo-scientists are able to use free schools to get access to our children.

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Sarah Teather: 'The UK is far richer, both economically and culturally, as a result of our diverse communities and cultures.'

Comment: The immigration bill is ugly, divisive politics

Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather says Britain is in an arms race to the bottom in a desperate need to ‘get tough’ on immigration.

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Dominic Dyer: 'We might be seeing the widespread illegal destruction of a protected species by organised criminal networks'

Comment: The conspiracy of illegal badger gassing

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Peter Reynolds: 'Enforcement of the law against cannabis creates a £6 billion per annum criminal market and massive division in our society'

Comment: Is Norman Baker the man who will finally make sense of UK drugs policy?

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Draft royal charter in full

Press regulation royal charter in full

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Richard Berry: 'You don't make money from buying football clubs. What they allow you to do is to project your image'

Comment: Football fans are complicit in the repression of millions of people in the Gulf

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Misleading the public? Salmond comments contrast sharply with what he was told behind closed doors.

‘A deliberate attempt to deceive the public’: Salmond caught out on oil fund

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Tony Clarke: 'Peace talks are perilous and very fragile and will be resisted by both Islamist groups and outsiders'

Comment: We can help Syria if we stop being so macho

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Samuel Lawes: 'The restrictive 'yes or no' question annoyed many voters, who wanted a less stark choice.'

Comment: Last week’s Irish referendum should worry Alex Salmond

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Janice Atkinson: 'These Ukip women are going to Brussels and it will be a better place because of them.'

Comment: This is what a Ukip reshuffle looks like

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John Baron: West must be alive to the delicate tightrope that Rouhani is treading

Comment: The stars are aligned for a better relationship with Iran

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Godfrey Bloom: 'The biggest problem is the fact of non-warming since the late 1990s -- a fact almost completely ignored by the report.'

Comment: Here’s the truth – there’s been no global warming since the 1990s

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Phil Scullion: 'A more cautious headline from the Daily Mail, a more sensitive and academically rigorous analysis, and it could all have been so different.'

Comment: Cameron should be furious with the Daily Mail

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