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*Blog

"After Johnson's comments, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned to court on Saturday"

Boris Johnson’s bumbling act is now a threat to Brits abroad

*Blog

"Which direction it takes depends, of course, upon a leadership election due to conclude in two weeks' time"

Scottish Labour is back in the game – what happens next depends on the leadership contest

*Blog

"The responses to the various sexual harassment and abuse scandals from the parties are changing daily."

Parties must do more to support the volunteers entrusted to investigate harassment complaints

News

"The omission is "potentially illegal" in light of the government's international obligations to protect disabled people"

Warning over new exclusion threat for disabled people

*Blog

"The widespread and routine sharing of personal data collected by frontline agencies with the Home Office is the cornerstone of the hostile environment."

Buried in a government bill, an immigration rule strips millions of their data protection

*Blog

"The legacy of the Reformation, and how Luther would have felt about it, will remain contested."

The radical history of Protestantism

*Blog

"One of the questions for politics now will be how much of the harassment of women was known about"

This isn’t a witch hunt – it’s a rebalancing of power between men and women

Stories are now a female currency. And the powerless are finding their voice

*Blog

"House Of Cards is the house that built Netflix"

How Netflix’s House Of Cards outpaced the news cycle, then toppled

Accusations against Kevin Spacey have toppled America’s most celebrated political drama

*Blog

"It is a useful reminder that most ordinary Brits aren't that hard-line on immigration"

Public attitudes on immigration are softening but Amber Rudd is stuck in the past

*Blog

"The failure of the Conservatives to invest sufficient resources to meet the needs of patients has now become intolerable"

Paying people to house NHS patients is not a solution to our social care crisis

*Blog

O'Mara has resigned from the Women and Equalities Committee

All sides need to stop using sexism as a political pawn

*Blog

"Chris Heaton-Harris, Tory MP, government whip and arch eurosceptic, has got himself into very hot water with academics"

A McCarthyite witchhunt against Remainer academics

*Blog

"These powers usually expand from what was originally envisaged"

This is what happened last time the govt gave itself huge executive powers

*Blog

"It's impossible to debate and discuss Brexit at all without the failed structure of our politics being at the heart of the discussion"

We need to take back control: Leavers and Remainers can agree on this

*Comment & Analysis

Trapped in an immigration nightmare: Spousal visa requirements have become much more severe in the last few years

Trapped in an immigration nightmare: How a single Home Office error threw a couple’s life into chaos

*Blog

"In the face of this horror show, there's only one thing which will heal our democracy: an end to the dishonesty"

Govt must publish Brexit impact papers – or be damned

*Blog

"A state has a constitution, whether it is written or unwritten"

Why the UK needs a written constitution

*Blogs

"The patients had prepared tea, scones and cakes for the protest. Some of the offerings were 'medicated' with infused cannabis preparations"

Why we took cannabis in front of parliament

*Blog

"I wasn't very surprised to hear him use a six-letter word that rhymes with 'digger' on Friday's Graham Norton Show on the BBC"

Outrage over Chris Rock’s BBC interview shows poverty of cultural criticism

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