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Chris Grayling implements "disastrous" reforms to the British legal system

Comment: Chris Grayling has lit a powder keg under British justice

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A serviceman in Afghanistan: Can military spending protect us without embroiling us in overseas adventures?

Comment: Military spending doesn’t make us safer – but it does make us poorer

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Reefer Madness descended on Fleet Street this week

Pick of the Week: An attack of reefer madness

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Angelina Jolie shares a joke with British ministers, but in the asylum system, her programme is being ignored

Comment: The Foreign Office pledges to help women – and then the Home Office betrays them

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Miliband needs more policies, not more politics

Comment: How did Labour spend a week about HSBC arguing over window cleaners?

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London has some of the most polluted streets in the world

Comment: Only ending our reliance on cars will clean our air

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Victims of torture are being failed by the UK detention system

Comment: How the Home Office fails torture survivors

Our safeguards to protect torture victims in detention are barely worth the paper they’re written on

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Repeated widening of the M25 motorway has failed to relieve congestion

Comment: Labour must reject this tunnel-vision on roads

Christian Wolmar: The future of cities doesn’t lie with the car

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A demonstrator turns out on the streets to support the new Greek government - but should left-wingers put their faith in Syriza?

Comment: The British left shouldn’t put too much faith in Syriza

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ID cards: Off the table in Westminster, on the table in Holyrood

Comment: Buried in a minor consultation – Scotland’s ID cards plans

*Blog

Parliamentary arithmetic: Labour can form a government even with fewer seats

Even if Labour gets fewer seats, it might still win the election

*Comment & Analysis

The Green party's membership is rising - but it is facing a new type of scrutiny of its policies

Comment: The knives are out for the Green party

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England's political future will be shaped by the outcome of the Evel debate

Comment: English votes for English laws will weaken the Union

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Nicola Sturgeon is getting rather good at baiting David Cameron

Pick of the week: Sturgeon’s clever tricks

*Comment & Analysis

Nottingham town hall wants more powers

Comment: Setting our cities free to grow

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Snoopers' charter: Smuggled in through the backdoor

Comment: They’re smuggling the snoopers’ charter into law – but we don’t even need it

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Justice secretary Chris Grayling has acted to systematically blunt charities' campaigning activities

Comment: The squeeze on charities is slowly crushing the third sector

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The eurozone crisis continues - but the poor must not pay the price

Comment: Greece gives EU the chance to rediscover its social mission

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The new slavery: Domestic servitude thrives under new visa rules

Comment: Is domestic slavery in Britain worse than Saudi Arabia?

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