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Police commissioners could be the key to cannabis reform

Police commissioners offer fresh hope for cannabis reform

*Comment & Analysis

Do you remember the first time? Blair has lessons for Labour

Pick of the Week: Tony Blair, surveillance, and the legal strike

*Comment & Analysis

Watermelons: Greens need to move beyond caricature of being Green outside and red inside

Comment: Greens must appeal to Tory voters too

*Comment & Analysis

There are fresh demands for action to tackle stop and search in the capital

Comment: Boris has presided over a catastrophic loss of trust in the police

*Comment & Analysis

One in three girls say they experience 'groping' or unwanted sexual touching at school

Comment: Young people need sex education to protect them from abuse

*Comment & Analysis

Syed Kamall: "We need to think more long-term when it comes to aviation"

Comment: Heathrow expansion is just a sticking plaster solution

*Comment & Analysis

"For those who still harbour the belief the EU is a defence against erosion of our rights at home, current events should be a wake-up call"

TTIP will force all Europeans to take Greece’s medicine

In modern Europe, democracy, rights and people’s needs are being sacrificed on the altar of free market fundamentalism

*Comment & Analysis

Homelessness: An inevitable consequence of housing benefit cuts?

Osborne’s cut to housing benefit will drive young people into homelessness

Cuts to housing benefits for young people could drive them out onto the streets

*Comment & Analysis

The arms trade requires public subsidy but doesn't necessarily make us safer

Comment: Want to boost the economy George? Try slashing the arms trade

*Comment & Analysis

Greeks celebrate in front of the their parliament as the results from last night's vote start to come in

Eyewitness: Despite media fear-mongering, Greeks stay calm and carry on

*Comment & Analysis

More than 100 young people have taken their own lives in prison since 2007

Time to end the scandal of young people dying in prison

*Comment & Analysis

Pensioners line up outside a National Bank branch in Athens yesterday after they open to allow them a small part of their benefits

‘We have to start from zero’: Greeks watch as endgame nears

*Comment & Analysis

Send 'em all home: How tough immigration rhetoric turns into child poverty

Comment: How we impoverish children in the name of a tough immigration policy

*Comment & Analysis

$Farron: We should now support a ban on fracking$

Comment: If I’m Lib Dem leader, we’ll oppose fracking

*Comment & Analysis

Schools in: We need to teach kids debate before they go to university

We need to teach schoolchildren free speech before university beats it out of them

*Comment & Analysis

Fight for your right to party: Overzealous councils are heaping regulation on the night-time economy

Comment: Fight For Your Right To Party – how officials are killing off British nightlife

*Comment & Analysis

Buttoned up: Britain's obesity epidemic costs millions - but education programmes could address it at an early stage

Comment: The nanny state can’t fix our obesity crisis

*Comment & Analysis

Some believe cannabis could be useful in treating a range of medical and psychological problems

Fight for medicinal cannabis reaches the Lords

*Comment & Analysis

Cameron at the Tory conference: The PM will find it impossible to push for a parliamentary veto

Comment: Tories might pull their hair out, but they’re not going to get a parliamentary veto in the EU

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