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

*Blog

Khat: Will Labour oppose a ban?

Labour can stop the khat ban this afternoon – but will it?

News

Book ban: Campaigners try to humiliate justice secretary

Happy birthday justice secretary: Campaigners prepare book present for Grayling

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Grayling fights fires on multiple fronts

Crisis of justice: Probation staff and solicitors go on joint strike

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The woman is understood to have died of cardiac arrest

Labour demands inquiry into Serco-run Yarl’s Wood following woman’s death

*Comment & Analysis

Ian Dunt: 'The universal credit programme is a bomb under the table'

Comment: The ruling which reveals IDS’ campaign of secrecy over universal credit

*Blog

Earning privileges: Grayling doesn't see the difference between a book and a Playstation

A U-turn on the book ban is not enough

*Comment & Analysis

Peter McGraith and David Cabreza: One of the first gay couples to get married in Britain.

‘We are changing marriage more than it’s changing us’: Britain’s first married gay couple speaks out

Last night, Peter McGraith became one of the first gay men to get married in Britain. Here, he tells us what it means to him.

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Protests against the Grayling rule on being sent books continue - but will the secretary of state back down?

Poet Laureate takes on prisoner book ban with Pentonville protest

Carol Ann Duffy takes lead in campaign against the prisoner book ban with poetry protest outside Pentonville prison

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Grayling's case for prison book ban starts to unravel as prison staff say there was no problem dealing with parcels

Prison staff lash out at Chris Grayling over book ban

*Comment & Analysis

PMQs as-it-happens

PMQs as-it-happens

*Blog

Performance related pay: Does it improve grades?

NUT strike: Why performance-related pay for teachers doesn’t work

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Alan Bennett is set to intervene in the prisoner books debate

Alan Bennett joins prison book ban campaign

*Blog

Chris Grayling: the questions the justice secretary still needs to answer

Prison book ban: The questions Chris Grayling must answer

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Flooded: Oxfam warns climate change means poor will be worst affected

The truth about flooding: Poor areas three times more likely to be hit than rich ones

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Chris Grayling and Nick Clegg take a seat in the library while they talk to inmates at the Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institute last January.

Prison book ban: Grayling hits back at critics

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Dead in the water? North Sea oil revenues are set to decline.

The myth of North Sea oil: Scots face £1K deficit growth per person under independence

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Mark Field pushes for more moderate immigration message

Tories rebel against party’s anti-immigration message

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Danger for darling: The Better Together campaign is facing questions about its tactics

Gap closes in Scottish independence campaign as ‘yes’ camp gathers momentum

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George Osborne basks in a well received Budget

Tories close in on Labour lead following Budget poll boost

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