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"The UK's Snoopers' Charter has been billed as one of the most intrusive of its kind anywhere in the Western world"

Super-spy search engine still being pursued in the shadows

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"The Labour leader's performance outpolled May among all age groups up to 64 year olds"

Question Time leaders special might have swung the election

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"Improving - and actively supporting - the justice system is critical if Iraq is to avoid another terrible descent into violence."

Isis is on the ropes in Iraq. Now the UK needs to push for justice

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"Our strategy on the future of work, health and disability brings together employers, the welfare system and health services"

Our ten-year plan to stop disabled people missing out on work

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"There's no good reason to suppose that the UK will receive any sort of special treatment from Trump"

Trump isn’t the ally you’re looking for – Brexiters threw their lot in with the wrong man

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"I want to send a clear message to the Home Office that taking such a harsh, systematic approach to homelessness will have devastating results"

Theresa May’s homeless deportation programme

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"What is needed is a message of unity that includes all citizens, in the true sense of the word, regardless of accident of birth."

Brexit: Why I refuse to apply for British citizenship

Those people that want me to ‘go home’ will not stop if I get a certificate

News

"The arrest is just the latest example of government departments and charity outreach services turning into immigration enforcement divisions under the orders of the Home Office"

Woman reports rape to police – and is arrested on immigration charges

The bleak reality of Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ revealed

Comment & Analysis

British productivity: Unrecovered from the financial crisis

Productivity: Everything you need to know about the problem strangling the economy

Comment & Analysis

Email exchange between Seb Dance and Nigel Farage

Labour MEP takes Farage to task for Soros witchhunt

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"For real change, Universal Credit doesn't need tinkering with - it needs a complete overhaul."

Changes to Universal Credit are welcome but they don’t go far enough

Blogs

"The Conservatives will be left looking for manifesto gimmicks to get them over the line – of the sort that Hammond has delivered, five years too early, and six months too late"

Hammond’s manifesto – five years too early, six months too late

Comment & Analysis

Concerns around casual labour are leading to a more sophisticated understanding of employment

Budget 2017: Hammond is surprisingly thoughtful about the nature of work

Comment & Analysis

Hammond had to contend with the National Insurance U-turn fiasco from his spring statement

Budget 2017: Brexit has taken Britain’s eyes off the ball

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"Over the last few years, May's 'hostile environment' has seeped into every area of life"

The fightback against May’s hostile environment has begun

Blog

"On New Year’s Day, Brexit will start in earnest, in this small policy area"

Carbon trading: The Brexit cliff edge starts on New Year’s Day

Comment & Analysis

$Concerns are increasingly being raised about heavy-handed policing of anti-fracking demos$

Kettling tea ladies: Hardline policing of fracking demos is out of control

Comment & Analysis

Alex Salmond on his RT set

RT is a tyranny sampler and Salmond shouldn’t be anywhere near it

Comment & Analysis

A Rohingya Muslim woman holds the hands of her grandchildren at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya, Bangladesh

May’s belated hand-wringing won’t help the Rohingya

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