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Migrants and asylum seekers try to get into the UK on the back of lorries in Calais

Comment: Britain has a responsibility toward Calais migrants

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Sandra Bland's sister, Shavon, is embraced before her funeral service at DuPage African Methodist Episcopal Church in Illinois last Saturday

Comment: Where is the outrage over Britain’s Sandra Blands?

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Police commissioners could be the key to cannabis reform

Police commissioners offer fresh hope for cannabis reform

*Comment & Analysis

Do you remember the first time? Blair has lessons for Labour

Pick of the Week: Tony Blair, surveillance, and the legal strike

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Watermelons: Greens need to move beyond caricature of being Green outside and red inside

Comment: Greens must appeal to Tory voters too

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There are fresh demands for action to tackle stop and search in the capital

Comment: Boris has presided over a catastrophic loss of trust in the police

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One in three girls say they experience 'groping' or unwanted sexual touching at school

Comment: Young people need sex education to protect them from abuse

Ministers say sex education is compulsory – but a free schools loophole is leaving children vulnerable to abuse

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Syed Kamall: "We need to think more long-term when it comes to aviation"

Comment: Heathrow expansion is just a sticking plaster solution

Syed Kamall: “We need to think more long-term when it comes to aviation”

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"For those who still harbour the belief the EU is a defence against erosion of our rights at home, current events should be a wake-up call"

TTIP will force all Europeans to take Greece’s medicine

*Comment & Analysis

Homelessness: An inevitable consequence of housing benefit cuts?

Osborne’s cut to housing benefit will drive young people into homelessness

*Comment & Analysis

The arms trade requires public subsidy but doesn't necessarily make us safer

Comment: Want to boost the economy George? Try slashing the arms trade

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Greeks celebrate in front of the their parliament as the results from last night's vote start to come in

Eyewitness: Despite media fear-mongering, Greeks stay calm and carry on

*Comment & Analysis

More than 100 young people have taken their own lives in prison since 2007

Time to end the scandal of young people dying in prison

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Pensioners line up outside a National Bank branch in Athens yesterday after they open to allow them a small part of their benefits

‘We have to start from zero’: Greeks watch as endgame nears

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Send 'em all home: How tough immigration rhetoric turns into child poverty

Comment: How we impoverish children in the name of a tough immigration policy

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$Farron: We should now support a ban on fracking$

Comment: If I’m Lib Dem leader, we’ll oppose fracking

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Schools in: We need to teach kids debate before they go to university

We need to teach schoolchildren free speech before university beats it out of them

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Fight for your right to party: Overzealous councils are heaping regulation on the night-time economy

Comment: Fight For Your Right To Party – how officials are killing off British nightlife

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Buttoned up: Britain's obesity epidemic costs millions - but education programmes could address it at an early stage

Comment: The nanny state can’t fix our obesity crisis

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