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Julian Assange arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Playing for time: How Brexit could help Assange beat the extradition system

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Uncertainty everywhere: Brits in Europe and EU citizens in the UK have been given no answers since the referendum result.

Brexit extension: The EU just condemned migrants to seven months of ‘flexible’ uncertainty

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Talking a big game: Brexiters often cite the people's will but seem unwilling to test it out.

Brexiters oppose a second referendum for one simple reason: They think they’ll lose

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Fresh thinking: Alternate voting systems discourage binary thinking

One simple change could help MPs find a compromise on Brexit

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Parliamentary sovereignty played a key role in the referendum, but it is now attacked by Brexit politicians.

Full circle: Brexiters rail against parliamentary sovereignty and the will of the people

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Williamson suggestion threatens to politicise crime in the military

Gavin Williamson’s demand for squaddie immunity betrays the horror of Bloody Sunday

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Doublethink: Brexit supporters seem increasingly able to hold two contradictory thoughts at the same time

Doublethink: How Brexit arguments lost all meaning

The weird desperation around Brexit arguments has now reached a crescendo.

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Article 24: The myth of a standstill negotiation has dug deep with many Brexiters.

Article 24: Even if it did what they said, it still wouldn’t work

Desperate new gambit from hardline Brexiters on using Article 24 of the GATT agreement in a no-deal Brexit doesn’t even make sense on its own terms.

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Security check: The Prevent programme requires public bodies to report people they suspect are vulnerable to 'extremism'

Stand up and be counted: Security establishment hits out to protect Prevent powers

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Stripped even of dignity: the lived experience of austerity

I’m Broken, Britain: Austerity strips you of everything in the end

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Hostile environment: A ugly policy finally coming to an end?

Crushing legal defeat for govt could finally kill off the Hostile Environment

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Through the looking glass: Up is down and up is down in the weird world of Brexit

Through the Looking Glass: The latest topsy-turvy logic of Brexit

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Trade: The closer you are, the more you do.

This Brexit trade bill threatens parliamentary sovereignty

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Split: Left-wing political history is dominated by splits and factions

Corbyn vs the Independent Group: Will the left ever stop splitting?

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Customs union: Time for Brexiters to think again

It’s time for Brexiters to support a customs union

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Broke: Health charges are so high they can make young applicants destitute

Forced into illegality: Home Office health charge pulverises young people’s hopes of a normal life

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Hard border: Concerns about infrastructure have started to dominate the Brexit debate.

These irresponsible Brexit games are dealing a body-blow to the Irish peace process

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Pay off: Attempts to buy off business and MPs have been less-than successful

This government has bungled every negotiation it faced and now it’s even bungling its bribes

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Car production: Moving away from the UK.

Car crash: The Brexit clear-out of UK manufacturing has already begun

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