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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

*Blog

A strike causes chaos in London. Many commuters in the capital despised the RMT leader.

Bob Crow was a testament to what trade unionists can achieve

News

Eton: Worse than drugs or fascism

Things that are better than going to Eton: Having an affair, being a fascist, taking hard drugs

News

Brown: Back on the front line with six-point constitutional plan

Brown wades into independence debate: No more ‘undivided Westminster sovereignty’

*Comment & Analysis

Farage poses for a photograph in front of flood water at Burrowbridge on the Somerset Levels last month

Week in Review: The ugliness of a Ukip Britain

*Comment & Analysis

An anonymous legal professional lays open the real struggles of the criminal Bar

‘If you want a sustainable life it’s not for you’: The reality of criminal law

News

Legal professionals hold placards during a protest against cuts to legal aid outside Southwark Crown Court in January

Justice screeches to a halt amid nationwide legal protest

News

Halfon: Ukip cleansing Tory party

Ukip ‘cleansing’ the Tory party

Ukip is cleansing the Tory party of undesirable elements by attracting racists out the mainstream, Conservative MP says

*Comment & Analysis

Somalia: A wounded man is treated by hospital staff. The Home Office previously found it was not safe to return asylum seekers to the country.

Immigrant Stories: The secret deportation programme to Somalia

One man speaks to Politics.co.uk from a detention centre, as he prepares for removal to Somalia’s Mogadishu, despite threats from Al-Shabaab

*Comment & Analysis

Striking cleaners and their supporters on the picket line at SOAS university

Immigrant Stories: Lenin and the fight for cleaners’ pay

News

Theresa May: Report slipped out as she took to her feet in the Commons

Home Office slips out immigration report under cover of police inquiry

News

Cable: 'Intensely relaxed' about immigration

‘Feeble and pathetic’: Business leaders savage immigration minister

News

HS2: project proves controversial with many Tory MPs

HS2 runs out of time: Minister admits legislation won’t pass before election

*Comment & Analysis

PMQs: Miliband vs Cameron

PMQs as-it-happened

*Comment & Analysis

Ian Dunt: 'It is as comprehensive an admittance of defeat as could be imagined'

Comment: The UN’s bullying tactics on drugs show how scared it is of reform

News

May Day: Report will cast doubt on home secretary's statements

May Day: Downing Street withholds report which humiliates home secretary

*Blog

Separated: Brits are being forced to pick between their partner or their country

The court judgement on loving an immigrant

News

Salmond: Osborne gambit a 'monumental error'

New blow for Salmond as poll shows decline in independence support

*Comment & Analysis

Dave and Angela: A close personal friendship masks political tensions

Week in Review: Cameron’s Greek tragedy… in German

*Comment & Analysis

Peter Howitt: 'The UK government's plans take no account of the need to assess an operator with reference to the jurisdiction in which they are based'

Comment: Britain’s gambling clampdown could cripple Gibraltar’s economy

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