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"The MS Society's statement on cannabis last week flew under the news radar, but it's an important development in the drug debate."

Getting the Conservatives behind cannabis

*Blog

"A new Supreme Court amendment is set to bring hope to thousands of families living apart due to the government's spouse visa rules"

Ray of hope for families kept apart by UK immigration enforcement

*Blog

"A system has not been put in place to ensure accountability, and as a consequence it is failing to protect those who live, work in and visit our prisons"

Grenfell prisons: A shocking report into fire safety behind bars

*Blog

"Under its new leadership UKIP could cease to act as a safety valve for extremism and instead become a platform for it."

The far right is re-inventing itself and we should be worried

*Blog

"Gardiner is also ignoring the wishes of the majority of Labour members, two-thirds of whom believe we should stay in the single market and the customs union"

Labour’s push to leave the customs union will decimate British industry

*Blog

"It's difficult to think of another time when there has been such uncertainty in our politics"

Our politics may look unpredictable but these four signals can tell us a lot

*Blog

"We're not asking for special treatment. All we are asking is that the rules of the game are not changed after the match has started."

May’s plans for EU citizens strip them of their rights

EU citizens plan mass lobby of parliament to defend rights, as details emerge of restrictions they’ll face under UK Brexit plan

*Blog

"Opponents of free higher education cite "record numbers of working class students" attending university, but what good is that when eight percent drop out just like I did?"

I’m working class and just dropped out of uni: Don’t tell me tuition fees have no effect

Critics of Corbyn’s free tuition pledge ignore what it would mean for people in my situation

*Blog

"What is most amazing is that May, like Trump, ever believed such secrecy could hold in the modern world"

Prime minister of secrets: The short, closed premiership of Theresa May

*Blog

"Britain needs to come to an agreement with the EU about how much it is on the hook for and how it can pay to have the hook removed"

The brutal complexity of Brexit’s pensions nightmare

*Blog

"What I wasn't quite ready for was to hear the depth of the anger that some of these people were expressing"

Real progress will be when we don’t have to celebrate a woman being cast as the Doctor

*Blog

The Brexit vote is far better understood within the context of Britain's ugly history of anti-immigration politics

Don’t let them whitewash Brexit

*Comment & Analysis

The Tory-DUP deal: Precursor to Irish reunification?

The Tory-DUP deal makes a united Ireland easier to deliver

*Comment & Analysis

Euratom: Price of departure could be catastrophic

Euratom is the perfect test case for revoking Article 50

*Comment & Analysis

Counting the cost: Prices set to rise at the checkout.

Food prices set to soar as hard Brexit approaches

*Comment & Analysis

Europe: Not just an economic project, but a political one

We can’t negotiate with Europe until we understand it

*Comment & Analysis

Deported: But are people rejected from UK facing FGM?

Will the Home Office deport a three year old girl to face genital mutilation?

*Blog

"Anything we achieve will be nothing but a replacement for things we already have."

The best Brexit outcome we can hope for is not much change at all

*Blog

"Much of the concern about a 'Corbyn cult' presupposes that some forms of political participation are legitimate, whilst others are inherently suspicious."

Corbyn supporters are not a cult

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