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Decriminalisation would make sex workers safer

Comment: Want to know how to make sex work safe? Ask sex workers

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House price inflation is causing immense social problems

Comment: Building more houses won’t bring down prices

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A child cannot begin to make sense of religion without at least some study of its alternatives

Comment: The government’s censorship of Humanism must be challenged in court

*Comment & Analysis

Boris Johnson's cycling commissioner attacks reporting of London's flagship cycle scheme

Andrew Gilligan: Why I called out LBC’s ‘false claim’ about cycle superhighways

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Budget cuts could lead to the loss of 22,000 police officers across the country

David Cameron’s police cuts are the biggest threat to our national security

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A report has linked as many as 600 suicides to the assessment process

Back to work support has failed the people who need it most

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We can use social media to connect with politicians, academics, and activists across the world

Digital democracy and the new underclass

The new age of political engagement will make many of us more powerful, but leave some behind

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Reducing the benefit cap will lead to fewer people finding jobs, not more

Comment: Tory cuts will make it harder for people to return to work

Cutting support to people who are temporarily unable to work will make it harder for them to return to the workforce

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Research shows the number of children in poverty that are from working households has risen by 300,000 since 2010

Comment: The government is breaking its pledge to fight child poverty

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Migrants arrive on a beach of the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece,

Why has Europe stopped caring about children drowning on our shores?

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Security services will be awarded more surveillance powers

Comment: The Investigatory Powers Bill will do nothing to tackle violent extremism

*Comment & Analysis

There are already women travelling from Scotland to England for late term abortions

Scottish women’s reproductive rights are now at risk

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Rubber masks of British Chancellor George Osborne are lined up by Anti-austerity protesters last year

The big tax credit cut almost nobody has heard of

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There is a culture of disbelief among rape and assault cases

The Cosby case shows how hard it is for rape victims to be heard

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The voices of sex workers are finally being heard

The debate over sex workers’ rights is finally being won

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The German model has attracted the interest of both Labour and the Conservatives over the years

Why is Labour still so obsessed with the German model?

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Assad supporters wave flags and placards during last year's presidential elections

Comment: The uncomfortable truth about Syria is that Assad is popular

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President al-Sisi is visiting the UK this week

Cameron’s welcome to the butcher of Egypt is a disgrace

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The UK's attitude to drug reform is in stark contrast to that in Ireland

Comment: The rest of the world is leaving Britain behind on drug reform

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