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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (6 days ago)

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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (6 days ago)

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If Nigel Farage is able to make the case for Syrian asylum seekers, Ed Miliband should be able to.

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Ed Jacobs
9 January, 2014

Doctors’ leaders have welcomed changes being made to GP contracts in Wales which will reduce bureaucracy and improve access for patients to GP surgeries.

Nigel Farage is right, but for the wrong reasons

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It’s a rare thing for a socialist to be inspired by something Nigel Farage says.

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Why John Rentoul is wrong about cannabis

James Bloodworth
8 January, 2014

The illegality of drugs causes vastly more misery than the use of drugs.

Voter ID in Britain? A note of caution from academic research

Toby James
8 January, 2014

There is a rich history of politicians using burdensome administrative requirements to try to win elections.

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James Bloodworth
7 January, 2014

This is what a real ‘Benefits Street’ might look like.

Cabinet papers remind us of Thatcherism’s ongoing legacy

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7 January, 2014

As George Osborne announces more cuts to welfare, again causing an even more divided and unequal society, we must learn the economic lessons of the past.

3 things the government *is* doing about flooding

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The government, and Owen Paterson in particular, have been criticised for not doing enough about flooding. Here, then, are three things they are doing.

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