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Steel crisis: Osborne’s ‘march of the makers’ now rings hollow
Tax credits, personal independent payments, Sunday trading and now steel all suggest a Government whose sure-footedness is eroding fast.
Turkey is illegally forcing refugees back to Syria
The legitimacy of the EU-Turkey deal is already in tatters, as Amnesty reports asylum-seekers are being forcibly returned to Syria
Five things we wish were April Fools jokes
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Why we should fear the National Living Wage
The term ‘living wage’ may cause the legal minimum to become the going rate for low-skilled work.
Nature poll: 83 per cent of UK scientists support Remain
Four-in-five British researchers believe Brexit would be harmful to UK science
Report proposes ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ contracts for property developers
The Civitas publication also advocates a public house-building programme to push down prices
Comment: Assad taking Palmyra does not bring Syria closer to peace
There is no individual cruelty IS has committed that the regime has not at least matched
Eight of Zac Goldsmith’s strangest attacks on Sadiq Khan
The negativity of the Conservative mayoral campaign is both unusual and sinister
Corbyn calls for Parliament to reconvene
Tory leadership conspicuously silent in the face of thousands of job losses
Welsh Assembly set for recall following Tata Steel decision
Party leaders have pledged to work with one another and with the UK government to protect steel workers and their families