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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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Under lock and key: Standards are declining under Grayling's tenure in charge of the prison system

Prison system deteriorating under Grayling, chief inspector says

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The surveillance stitch up: Secret talks resurrect communication snooping powers

United in surveillance: The snooping stitch up

*Comment & Analysis

PMQs as-it-happens

PMQs as-it-happened

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Grayling gives evidence as protestors hold up Crime and Punishment behind him

Prison book ban: Protestors hold up Crime and Punishment as Grayling gives evidence

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The Commonwealth Games are taken seriously as a political event by the SNP

British hospitality: Commonwealth Games athletes will be tracked to make sure they leave

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Locked up: Asylum seekers are instantly detained under the fast-track system

High Court rules asylum detention programme is unlawful

*Blog

Anonymous: Even the investigator's identity has been kept secret

The invisible report: The grim reality of the Home Office’s sex abuse investigation

An anonymous investigator and an unread report: Exactly what did the Home Office do right in the sex abuse allegation case?

*Blog

Modern slavery: New rules will put trafficked children at greater risk

Today MPs vote to end slavery – tomorrow they vote to continue it

Don’t fooled by the rhetoric over the slavery bill. Tomorrow, MPs will vote to strip trafficked children of their rights.

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Dickens outside parliament just after he used parliamentary privilege to name British diplomat Peter Hayman as a paedophile

Dickens warned child abuse campaigners ‘powerful people’ would target them

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Charicature: Grayling will feature as the villain in Courting Trouble

Author’s new book features villain called Chris Grayling

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Theresa May statement to Commons will try to head off criticism of the government's handling of paedophilia allegations from the 1980s

No public inquiry into child sex abuse… for now

*Blog

Prison: Not working, still costing lots of money

It costs more and achieves less: Why prison doesn’t work

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Andy Coulson faces sentencing

‘Good investigative journalism takes courage’: Andy Coulson sent to prison

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Chaos in probation? Grayling wants to cement the reforms in place before the election

Chaos in probation: Staff ‘picked out of a hat’ for privatised service

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MIssing out: International talent going elsewhere, report finds

Report: Immigration policy keeping out the best and brightest

*Comment & Analysis

PMQs as it happens

PMQs as-it-happened

*Comment & Analysis

Wall Street Rules: Private firms underbid on contracts then cherry-pick the most profitable elements

Comment: How privatisation killed the ‘big society’

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More scandal at the Met, as tribunal finds it routinely deletes discrimination findings

Met routinely deletes findings of sex and race discrimination

*Blog

Sarah Teather at the Lib Dem conference. She is quitting parliament at the general election.

Lonely voices of protest against anti-immigrant legal attack

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