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Ian Dunt

Ian Dunt served as the editor-at-large of Politics.co.uk until 2021. He is a regular host on the Oh God What Now podcast, a columnist for the New European and the i newspaper, and the author of two books: Brexit: What The Hell Happens Now and How To Be A Liberal.

Latest articles

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Acrss the world the drug consensus is falling apart, but the UK is slow to follow

Home Office clings to the raft as international drug consensus crumbles

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Snoopers' charter: Major powers would give authorities access to real-time communications data

Latest snoopers’ charter attempt shows how desperate police have become

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Why yes you can...

Pick of the week: A double helping of Grayling

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Knocking on the Commons door: Peers had some choice words for Grayling last night

Grayling hoist by his own petard in final judicial review debate

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Plain packs in Australia, the only country to implement the policy so far

Plain packs are a victory for the dim-witted and the joyless

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Suicide: Warnings were issued about 'resource, population and policy pressures'

The human price of the prison crisis: 2014 suicide rates revealed

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Chris Grayling, the first non-lawyer to take the lord chancellor position for 400 years

Grayling: I’m the first impartial lord chancellor in 400 years

Bizarre interview sees Chris Grayling express his frustrations with lawyers and ‘the Left’.

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The majority of recipients of child maintenance are women

The coalition cut which takes food from children’s mouths

Hundreds of thousands of single mums are being left without child maintenance, but the government is more concerned with its balance sheet

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A campaigner is arrested during a protest at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, home of Trident, in 2007.

The age of coalition government is killing off Trident

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David Starkey poses for a photograph while attending the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards 2006

David Starkey is a litmus test of our commitment to free speech

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Will MPs back the Lords rebellion over judicial review?

Round four: Grayling offers last-minute concession to kill off judicial review rebellion

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No blanket surveillance: Clegg puts his foot down on snoopers' charter

Clegg puts his foot down on snoopers’ charter

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What are you looking at? Experts warn the snoopers' charter would give government access to all our communication

Does Cameron have any response to terror which doesn’t involve the snoopers’ charter?

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London's thoughts with Paris: The Charlie Hebdo attacks were felt across the world.

Pick of the week: Je suis Charlie

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Cameron during 2010 TV debates, when he was overshadowed by Nick Clegg

Cameron’s fear of TV debates shows how weak his presidential skills really are

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Merkel speaks during her joint press conference with Cameron yesterday

Angela Merkel is saving the British economy

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The latest issue of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked by gunmen today

Charlie Hebdo attack: This is not about Islam – it’s about free speech

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Plain packs: Evidence unclear as coalition government mulls its options

New plain packs ‘evidence’ is worthy of a laugh and little else

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Making the deal - but government departments don't keep track of tendering data before negotiations

MoJ pulls the wool over its own eyes in G4S and Serco contracts

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