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Why PCCs must go: a better way to do local policing
We must address the failed experiment with Police and Crime Commissioners.
Would you hand supervision of offenders to companies with no experience of providing probation services?
The government’s plans to sell-off the probation service will be pushed to a vote on today by Labour MPs.
Troubled families figure ‘delight’ misses the real picture
The headline figure of ‘troubled families’ tells us little about the situation in local areas.
The Swiss cheese blueprint for Scotland
On the fundamentals Alex Salmond’s blueprint for independence resembles a piece of Swiss cheese with holes running through it.
Men are still ‘studs’ while women remain ‘sluts’
If as a society we wish to improve attitudes towards sexual consent – and more importantly reduce the number of women who are sexually assaulted by men – we need to end to the sexual double standard.
Over half of voters believe the Tories ‘only represent the rich’
A majority of voters believe the Conservative Party only represents the interests of the rich, according to a new ComRes survey for tomorrow’s Independent.
We say ‘a plague on both their houses’ when looking at both far-right and Islamist extremism
Anjem Choudary and the al-Muhajiroun extremist network provide a gateway to terrorism, according to a new report co-authored by Nick Lowles of HOPE not hate.
Bristol woman ‘killed herself after benefits were stopped’
A Bristol woman who suffered severe pain due to slipped discs in her back and neck has taken her own life after having her benefits stopped.
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Iran hit pause, we need it to rewind
Iran is not our friend, however smiley and polished their foreign minister is, and this deal has not solved any of the problems over Iran’s nuclear programme, much less over its regional agenda.