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Sarah Ludford: 'A deal struck between the centre-right and centre-left groups meant a majority accepted what Clarke had got the Council of Ministers to agree to'

Comment: We’ve defeated the European snooping project

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Francis West: 'Investor pressure will not be brought to bear effectively without government intervention'

Comment: Five ways to restore public trust in big business

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Diana Johnson: 'Now is the time to ask ourselves what more needs to be done to truly secure LGBT equality'

Comment: We have a chance to finally stamp out gay conversion therapy

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Andrew Smith: The Arab Spring should have been the start of a re-evaluation of how the UK does business in the region

Comment: The Foreign Office prefers Saudi arms deals to human rights

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Gove starts a new career as a rapper

WATCH: Michael Gove does the ‘Wham Rap’

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Noel Edmond wants to buy the BBC

WATCH: Noel Edmonds says he wants to buy the BBC

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Rod Clark: 'The government's own research has proved what we do reduces reoffending by a quarter' (Credit: Rebecca Radmore)

Comment: Grayling should help prisoners educate themselves – not hinder them

Inmates who struggle to complete courses in prison cite the difficult accessing books as one of the main reasons for quitting

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Alastair Sloan: 'In a part of the world where religion is so important, it's unlikely in the near future that any populist movement will not in some way incorporate Islamist thinking'

Comment: Cameron’s Muslim Brotherhood investigation is just a favour to the Saudis

The PM offers satisfaction to Sisi’s murderous Egyptian regime and Saudi Arabia with an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood

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Keith Taylor: 'The majority of migrants leaving detention after a year or more are actually released back into the UK, rather than deported'

Comment: We’re locking people up for the crime of being born outside the UK

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Caroline Lucas: 'A gift of a book can change not just what you read but who you become'

Comment: Grayling’s book ban excuses just don’t wash

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Frances Crook: 'If a prisoner is lucky enough to get a job working in the kitchen or cleaning the wings the average earning is £8 a week'

Comment: Why Nick Clegg is wrong to support the prisoner book ban

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Kristyan Benedict: 'The overall humanitarian situation in Syria remains calamitous'

Comment: The medieval punishment of Syria continues, ignored by the world

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Patrick Ashworth: 'No political party would dream of letting their opponents' figures pass unchallenged'

Comment: Facts – not emotions – will win the immigration debate

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The week according to Sean Dilley

The week according to Sean Dilley

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Carl Miller: Twitcidents contain vital information about how people are reacting.

This Is Your Brain Online: The challenge of the twitcident

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Dominic Dyer: This has not been Auntie's finest hour

Comment: The BBC’s badger cull reporting has misled Britain

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Andrew Neilson: 'Why would the Ministry of Justice find it so hard to stick to a definitive line on this measure?'

Comment: Chris Grayling’s tortured defence of the prison book ban is falling apart

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Filtered: The system around what gets censored is hard to establish

The internet censorship programme you’re not allowed to know about

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Jason Reed: 'We've found ourselves going off-piste and lacking in any degree of continuity in the conduct of existing drug law enforcement'

Comment: How much does the war on drugs cost you?

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