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

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IDS' resignation has triggered a wave of open attacks on the Tory leadership

IDS and the new age of political chaos

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Price on being poor: A sugar tax on drinks is likely to hit lower income groups hardest

Budget 2016: Osborne’s sugar tax is another punishment on the poor

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Favouring the status quo will lead to more drug deaths

The UN fades into irrelevance in the war on drugs

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The Rhodes Must Fall debate is not a free speech issue

The Rhodes Must Fall movement is championing free speech

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Levels of assault were much higher than in similar prisons

Serco’s prison falls into chaos

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Legalised: The panel propose a conservative regulatory model for cannabis

The Lib Dem cannabis legalisation system revealed

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Corbyn will be punished for his bravery on sex work

Those attacking Corbyn are not protecting sex workers, they are ignoring them

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Corbyn's dress sense was targeted by Cameron during PMQs

PMQs verdict: Corbyn lets Cameron get away with it as Commons descends into ‘your mum’ jokes

Cameron was both misleading and snobbish – but the Labour leader wasn’t smart enough to stand up to him

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Mike Penning's poor letter reflects the standard of the policy it is intended to defend

Is the Home Office copying and pasting drug arguments from a website?

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Thousands of children are thought to be separated from a parent because of visa rules

Supreme Court could knock down Tory anti-love rule

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Cameron's deal has almost nothing of substance within it

Cameron’s EU deal has all the substance of confetti at an autumn wedding

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Many detainees develop mental problems while in detention centres and some are put on constant watch

Body found at immigration detention centre

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Legal highs: Easier to get than toiletries in Leicester prison

No basic necessities but plenty of legal highs: Another damning report on Britain’s prisons

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Porn: Is this the most inane consultation of all time?

Is this the most inane government consultation of all time?

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Gay rights: Peter Tatchell has been fighting for gay equality for decades

Ignore the excuses – Peter Tatchell has been no-platformed

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George Osborne is spending much of this parliament talking about his so-called fiscal charter

Osborne’s fiscal charter shows the Tories have lost touch with reality

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Corbyn needs to be a little more professional if he's going to be taken seriously

PMQs verdict: Cameron squirms away from Corbyn’s housing attack

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2,018 asylum-seeking children were returned to Afghanistan when they turned 18, according to new figures

The Home Office admits it deported twice as many children to dangerous countries as it thought it had

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Intercept: The draft investigatory powers bill would give authorities sweeping new powers to spy on electronic messaging

Bad day for Britain’s spies as intelligence watchdog grows teeth

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