An unreported scandal: Wages so low they're illegal
A row over the coalition's wavering enforcement of the national minimum wage is acting as a smokescreen for the real reason workers are being let down. It's austerity, of course.
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Britain and America: Drifting apart?
Confirmation of the Chilcot inquiry delay plays right into David Cameron's hands: it's hiding just how strained Britain's special relationship with America is right now.
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Pick of the week: After the attacks
Civil liberties in retreat as Britain faces a renewed terror threat
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Comment: The myth of Muslim no-go areas is being used to turn us against one another
From Fox News security 'expert' Steve Emerson to Ukip leader Nigel Farage, the right has seized on a dangerous myth about Muslim no-go zones and used it to advance the culture wars
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The death of the British far right
The British far right is in a state of historic and apparently terminal decline.
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A war on democracy: How statutory instruments replaced acts of parliament
Every year, the executive grows more powerful and parliament less. So why does no-one comment on a devastating trend for British democracy?
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Comment: The MoD's nonsensical faith in depleted uranium
We might be about to hand a major propaganda victory to the Islamic State, a retired general warns.
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We're all to blame for child sexual exploitation
Instead of protecting our young from the evils of sexual exploitation, we are blaming them for it. No wonder an MP's campaign to remove the term 'child prostitution' from the statute book is struggling to gain traction.
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Ed Miliband election campaign launch speech in full
Ed Miliband's speech launching Labour's election speech - in full and unedited
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New Year messages, 2011-2015: What a difference four years makes
The 2011 new year messages were full of optimism and ambition; their 2015 sequels are jaded, electioneering paeans peddling hope instead of offering it
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Comment: There's no-one to vote for in 2015
Politics in Britain is in a desperate state - a demagogic nightmare heading towards the lowest common denominator.
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How to steal the youth vote in Britain
They're critical to deciding the next general election - but will any of the political parties actually do what they must to win over young voters?
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Drugs, Ukip and a prisoner book ban: Our most-read articles of 2014
Dodgy government plans you probably don't know about and outrageous comments from fringe parties: these are what the readers of Politics.co.uk got most excited about in 2014.
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Comment: Why is it still socially acceptable to persecute travellers?
No other minority is so widely and unquestionably abused in the UK.
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Unpicking the secret of Nigel Farage's appeal
Nigel Farage looks, sounds and feels annoyed with the way things are. For the people who also feel this way he has become a beacon.
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Learning to let go: How opening up parties could save them
The Conservative and Labour parties are dying a painfully slow death – but there is a way out, a report out today suggests.
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Autumn statement comment: Only the well-off benefit from Osborne's tinkering
An autumn statement full of treats for the wealthy will not salvage George Osborne's reputation
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A national cover-up: Coalition's meddling is costing the poor their vote
It's a scandal no-one in power wants you to know about - but the coalition's changes to the way people register to vote mean around one million of Britain's poorest, most deprived voters have disappeared from the electoral register overnight.
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Without due process: How Britain deported 50,000 students
Tens of thousands of students are being removed from Britain for supposedly fraudulent test results - but why won;t the Home Office show them the evidence against them?
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Without due process: How Britain deported 50,000 students - part two
Tens of thousands of students are being removed from Britain for supposedly fraudulent test results - but why won;t the Home Office show them the evidence against them?
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