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![Australia's trade minister described his country's relationship with Britain as one of "yesteryear."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14117174_1200-1024x768.jpg)
!["The circumstances surrounding Hinkley have changed significantly since the initial plan."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14120114_1200-1024x461.jpg)
!["The circumstances surrounding Hinkley have changed significantly since the initial plan."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14120114_1200-1024x461.jpg)
!["It is a scandal of huge proportions that our government keeps delivering a message on medicinal cannabis which is false."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119303_1200-1024x836.jpg)
!["It is a scandal of huge proportions that our government keeps delivering a message on medicinal cannabis which is false."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119303_1200-1024x836.jpg)
!["This review is using an incomplete register from December 2015 – ignoring the more than two million people who have registered between then and June"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14120069_1200-1-1024x672.jpg)
!["This review is using an incomplete register from December 2015 – ignoring the more than two million people who have registered between then and June"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14120069_1200-1-1024x672.jpg)
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![Residents at Boundary House have teamed up with housing activists to highlight the conditions they are living in](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14120035_1200-1024x470.png)
!["Allowing faith schools to apply 100% discrimination is therefore a gargantuan step in the wrong direction"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14120023_1200-1024x684.jpg)
!["Allowing faith schools to apply 100% discrimination is therefore a gargantuan step in the wrong direction"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14120023_1200-1024x684.jpg)
![Owen Smith said that a tweet he sent earlier this year suggesting Nicola Sturgeon should eat a gobstopper was "just political banter"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119937_1200-1-1024x768.jpg)
![Owen Smith said that a tweet he sent earlier this year suggesting Nicola Sturgeon should eat a gobstopper was "just political banter"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119937_1200-1-1024x768.jpg)
![Wales Humanists launches report on 100 years of disestablishment](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123216_1200-10-1024x297.png)
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The Court of Appeal in Kano has drastically reduced the sentence of Mubarak Bala, imprisoned President of the Nigerian Humanist Association, from 24 years to five. The judges unanimously found that his original sentence for blasphemous Facebook posts was excessive and in contravention of the law. Bala has already been in prison for four years, so this… Read more »
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The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) are set to launch their Bakers‘ Dozen manifesto that they and their members want to see introduced by the next UK Government. Aimed especially at the Labour Party, the Bakers‘ Dozen report and manifesto lays out 13 policy demands that would transform the lives of their members and working class people across… Read more »
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!["New figures released this week show that 25 women in the city were murdered as a result of domestic violence in just 12 months."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14117740_1200-1024x681.jpg)
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