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Alistair Darling calls on Better Together to advance positive case for the Union
The head of the Better Together campaign has called on those wanting to keep Scotland within the Union to base their case on a positive platform that extols the virtues of membership.
The Home Office needs to come clean about taser deaths
Greater Manchester police has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) following the death of a young man after attending a call out.
Look left: Ed Miliband and the trade unions, the Royal Mail, and MPs’ pay
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
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Is the Huffington Post branching out into sexist upskirt shots?
Wimbledon is supposed to be about decorum and propriety. And yet it seems that much of the respect that is automatically conferred upon the male tennis fraternity does not extend to women.
Two thirds of public opposed to Royal Mail sell off, including majority of UKIP supporters
Two thirds of the public are opposed to the government’s sell off of Royal Mail, with over a third ‘strongly opposed’, according to a new YouGov poll.
MPs and the Royal Family: apparently the only public sector workers who deserve a pay rise
Just a few weeks after chancellor George Osborne announced £11.5 billion pounds worth of spending cuts, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has recommended that MPs receive an inflation-busting pay increase to £74,000 – up from the current level of £65,738.
Lewisham Hospital: A tribunal of the People, by the People and for the People
It is increasingly obvious that citizens worldwide are becoming disenchanted and disengaged with established government. This has been manifest in various forms of political and economic meltdown.
Legal aid changes will allow abuses of power by public authorities against the most vulnerable
Last week justice secretary Chris Grayling withdrew his proposal to deny those accused in the criminal courts and reliant on legal aid the right to choose who will represent them.
We need less corporate socialism for private sector landlords
The UK housing debate is increasingly focused on who the housing system serves: the nation’s needs or vested interests that seek to preserve tenure-based wealth inequalities.