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"Leave has continued to push fears about Turkey's entry"

Turkey’s EU membership will remain in the EU’s deep freeze, whatever Leave claims

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"The EU referendum is nearly over and most of us will be relieved"

The Brexit campaign has been ugly – but we need to make the progressive case for leaving the EU

*Comment & Analysis

Brexit: Campaign enters final stage

Brexit referendum live

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"The narrative that English fans were primarily responsible for starting the trouble quickly set in"

The media are too quick to blame England fans for Euro 2016 violence

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"The government could make freedom of movement work better for everyone"

The case for EU immigration must be made before it’s too late

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"To sell vulnerable people dreams that cannot be achieved is to trade in a dangerous currency"

Brexit and the art of the possible

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"More often than not, welfare sanctions are the most commonly cited reason for foodbank referral"

The government has turned its back on the people of Foodbank Britain

Politicians need to start listening to the people who use foodbanks

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"Leaving the EU would also cut-off vital funding which has done so much to copper-fasten peace in recent years"

Brexit could spell the death of Northern Ireland

The risks of Brexit breaking up the UK are very real

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"In this time of austerity – and in the middle of a housing crisis – what remains of publicly funded legal advice is vanishing"

Legal aid cuts have ripped the heart out of our justice system

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"It should not come as a surprise if many more individuals practicing non-traditional sexualities find themselves at the hard edge of the law"

Our rape laws discriminate against trans people

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The debate has become so grubby and fundamentally unenlightening that the public is grasping for those hard stone tablets of facts

Stop asking for facts in the Brexit debate

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Corbyn has so far had a dismal referendum campaign

Labour’s only hope of survival is if Britain votes for Brexit

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"We are already seeing the backlash against Heard: The accusations. The sneers. The flagrant disbelief"

Amber Heard and the ‘perfect victim’ myth that prevents women speaking up

*Comment & Analysis

"The book follows the tradition of Hannan's pin-up Enoch Powell"

The Brexiteers bible: What Daniel Hannan’s ‘Why Vote Leave’ leaves out

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"The Church presents a challenge: come be a part of a community you cannot curate. It can be awkward and uncomfortable. It is often beautiful"

Those who applaud the decline of the church will miss it once it’s gone

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"Being a radical today relates as much to who you are as to what you think"

The left’s obsession with identity politics causes a new injustice

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"If my generation are serious about democracy then we must broaden our tolerance"

Safe space fiction: University tries to censor student’s ‘offensive’ short story

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"Our rulers also handed our banking system to people who could neither value or even understand it – and then made us pay when it crashed"

The EU debate is a referendum on the failures of Britain’s ruling class

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"Many female prisoners have a history of trauma, mental health problems and have suffered poverty, homelessness and domestic abuse"

Women shouldn’t be forced to seek refuge inside a prison

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