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A new migration campaign is launched this week

Comment: ‘I am a migrant’ campaign will challenge toxic migration myths

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Shaker Aamer spent almost 14 years in US detention

The government must grant Shaker Aamer’s call for torture inquiry

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Tony Blair still has a lot to say on the Middle East

Comment: We must work with Islamists to secure peace in the Middle East

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Respecting different views is an important part of our politics and history

It’s PMQs, not safe spaces, which is the future for open debate

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Labour MP Stella Creasy has been targeted with vile abuse online

The Syria debate revealed a nasty and sexist side to the left

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The Met was forced to apologise to seven women deceived into relationships with undercover police officers

Undercover police: How women forced the Met to own up

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The Labour leader has come under fire for his relationship with Stop the War

Jeremy Corbyn must cut all ties with the repugnant Stop the War Coalition

The time has come for the Labour leader to distance himself from the anti-war group

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Replacing grants with loans leaves students saddled with debt

Comment: Cuts to maintenance grants will hit the poorest students hardest

Poorer students will be left with mortgage levels of debt

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The TfL bill currently going through Parliament, includes provisions for it to set-up limited liability partnerships with developers

Comment: Transport for London sign ‘mini-TTIP’ deal with developers

*Comment & Analysis

Walk on by: Nigel Farage's party have failed to win over the people of Oldham West and Royton

Ignore the hype. Ukip will lose to Labour in Oldham West

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The prime minister wants Britain to legitimise a failing strategy which is only exacerbating the wider Syrian civil war

Comment: Cameron’s Syrian war fever is really about wounded pride

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Conditions in the Calais jungle are deteriorating

Amid the desolation, hope emerges from the Calais jungle

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Three parents and their children challenged the government over the exclusion of non-religious worldviews from the school curriculum

Comment: Legal victory will stop the censorship of non-religious views in schools

*Comment & Analysis

Osborne: small print plan to sell off British assets

Comment: Hidden away in the spending review – a plan to sell off Britain’s assets

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Syrian government forces walk past a building bearing an image on the wall with Islamic writing and reading in Arabic the 'Islamic State'

Comment: Cutting ties with Saudi Arabia won’t eliminate Isis

*Comment & Analysis

Osborne's rhetoric masks his real plans for 'small government', Bennett says

Comment: Osborne’s spending review shows this is an extremist government

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Does rape culture really exist?

Video: Rape culture – menace or myth?

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Research shows 31% of women referred to refuges were turned away due to lack of space

Comment: Behind the formalities of the spending review, Osborne is putting women’s lives at risk

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No-platforming sends an important message to marginalised voices

Comment: Safe spaces don’t limit free speech – they give it to the marginalised

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