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"Last month she announced a consultation on a series of reforms to the personal injury sector that critics say will threaten thousands of jobs and tear up hundreds of years of legal tradition"

Liz Truss’ whiplash scheme hands insurance companies a bumper payment

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"In many ways, Blair is emblematic of the type of politics the electorate rejected during Brexit."

Blair’s legacy is mixed but we need him now

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"This by-election is significant in so many ways"

Richmond victory helps mend the Brexit heartbreak

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Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Olney celebrates after winning the Richmond Park by-election

Sorry Remainers, but there aren’t enough Richmonds to go around

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A man holds a portrait of Fidel Castro during a rally honoring the deceased Cuban leader at the Revolution Plaza in Havana

The left can handle Castro’s crimes, but not his nationalism

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During the US election campaign, Donald Trump vowed to sign a bill defunding Planned Parenthood.

The British women standing up against Trump’s plans for Planned Parenthood

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"Richmond Park is set to be a close by-election, and its result is hotly anticipated by both sides"

Defeating Zac Goldsmith could turn the tide on Brexit

A Lib Dem win in Richmond could force the government into Brexit concessions

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"Aside from all the risks the government is taking with UK adults' privacy and security, the obvious question is whether AV technologies can be forced on foreign websites"

Censored: Government porn plans will create a UK internet blacklist

The ill-thought-out porn bill will leave millions at risk of data leaks

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"The government plans to introduce a system which will force all websites which contain pornography to collect age verification data on their users"

Insecure, ineffective and dangerous: The reality of the UK’s new porn bill

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"The world is moving on and so is the Tory party. The prime minister needs to keep up."

The world is changing on cannabis, but Britain is left behind

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"Over time Clinton has become a by-word for scandal"

Post-truth politics is a myth – this is the post-trust era

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"De-skilling is something almost all the asylum seekers have to do once they enter the UK"

Language barriers are making asylum seekers suffer all over again

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"The impact of the reduction in MPs on parliament's role to hold the government to account must be put in the spotlight."

Cutting MP numbers will hand more power to unaccountable governments

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"There remains only one way to judge a prison's success. Count how many people leave and don't come back"

Truss’ big plans for prison reform have no substance behind them

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"We're seeing a sudden decline in efforts to get health interventions like needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) and opioid substitution therapy (OST) to people who inject drugs"

War on drugs to cost more lives as harm reduction strategies stall

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"Calls for her resignation are growing, and they will continue to grow unless some real leadership emerges"

We’re in the middle of a prison crisis but where is Liz Truss?

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"Almost 90% of our total global trade is linked to the EU"

May must prioritise trade with Europe, not Trump

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"Marmitegate was just the first sign that the cost of our weekly shop is directly linked to the outcomes of the government's negotiations with Brussels"

The government needs to take urgent action to prevent Brexit hurting all of us

*Comment & Analysis

An anti-U.S. protest outside the US Embassy in Manila, Philippines

The world has yet to wake up to the clear and present danger of Donald Trump

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