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People stand by a crater and a house damaged by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, May 27, 2015

It’s time for May to come clean on precision-guided munitions sales to Saudi Arabia

*Comment & Analysis

One Day Without Us will see events across the country highlight migrant contributions to the UK

One Day Without Us: We’ll show Britain how much value migrants bring

*Blog

"The fall of Aleppo brought a cacophony of recriminations against those who opposed military action against President Assad in 2013"

Arguments over Western failures in Syria mask the grim reality of unstoppable war

*Blog

"Society's relationship with sexual violence against males is at times ambivalent, to say the least"

Male victims of sexual violence are being ignored by the government

*Blog

"Anyone who can't take a side becomes at best an irrelevance and at worse insulting to voters on both sides"

It’s time for Labour to come off the fence over Brexit

*Blog

"So what did our protest achieve? It put the issue of aid drops on the public agenda and was appreciated by Syrians in Aleppo and the diaspora."

The truth about Syria, Corbyn and our protest

*Blog

Today there is a motion in parliament to approve his membership and it's rumoured that some MPs are planning to challenge it.

Why is a man like Philip Davies being appointed to the women’s committee?

That somebody like Davies could be involved with this committee is an insult to women everywhere

*Blog

Custody vans wait to move prisoners out of HMP Birmingham after Friday's disturbance

It’s time Theresa May showed some leadership on the prison crisis

Footage of riot police lining the streets of Birmingham doesn’t look good for May

*Blog

A recent poll of over 3,000 people in Sunderland showed that the majority of those who took part, would vote to remain in the EU if there was another referendum

Sunderland shows that the public are getting cold feet over Brexit

*Blog

The Istanbul Convention makes demands on the government to ensure counselling and support services for rape victims and refuges for victims of violence are sufficient

Today’s Istanbul Convention vote is too important to let the Tories talk it out

*Blog

"It is not hard to see why one senior Lib Dem recently observed that in 2016 we are where the opposition were in 1902"

Edwardian radicalism: The 1906 election which broke the Tories

*Blog

"If you did nothing for Syria, though, what you did achieve was the derailment of a vital and historic speech."

Dear Peter, all your protest achieved was to detract from women’s issues

*Blog

"But a lot can change in two years. If they do, the experts generally agree that the decision to leave the European Union can be undone."

Can we withdraw Article 50 once we trigger it? Probably (but it’s complicated)

*Blog

"MPs want at least as much information on the Brexit process as MEPs."

MPs want to know as much about Brexit as MEPs

*Blog

"It was understood by every MP and peer during the referendum bill that parliament would be bound by its result."

Why the government might be right about Article 50

*Blog

"Testing prisoners for drugs simply cannot keep up with the rate at which new psychoactive substances are being developed"

The Spice epidemic in jails is a product of government policy

*Blog

"Last month she announced a consultation on a series of reforms to the personal injury sector that critics say will threaten thousands of jobs and tear up hundreds of years of legal tradition"

Liz Truss’ whiplash scheme hands insurance companies a bumper payment

*Blog

"In many ways, Blair is emblematic of the type of politics the electorate rejected during Brexit."

Blair’s legacy is mixed but we need him now

*Blog

"This by-election is significant in so many ways"

Richmond victory helps mend the Brexit heartbreak

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