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*Blog

"It is a scandal of huge proportions that our government keeps delivering a message on medicinal cannabis which is false."

The fight for medical cannabis passes a watershed moment

*Blog

"This review is using an incomplete register from December 2015 – ignoring the more than two million people who have registered between then and June"

Five reasons the boundary review is deeply flawed

*Blog

"Allowing faith schools to apply 100% discrimination is therefore a gargantuan step in the wrong direction"

Allowing faith schools to exclude all non-believers will only push communities apart

*Blog

"New figures released this week show that 25 women in the city were murdered as a result of domestic violence in just 12 months."

With violence against women rising, these cuts will put lives at risk

*Blog

"It is commonplace for disabled people now to be offered incontinence pads when they are not incontinent as a replacement for support to use the toilet"

The closure of the Independent Living Fund has been disastrous for disabled people

*Blog

"Alistair Campbell's belief that Labour "don’t do God" has come to haunt the party's interactions with faith groups"

Labour must stop being embarrassed talking about religion

*Comment & Analysis

Liz Truss 'waffled and giggled but rarely got close to answering the question'

Prison reform looks dead in the water under Liz Truss

New justice secretary failed to impress in front of MPs

*Blog

"The Equality Advisory Support Service (EASS) is more important than ever"

Why does the government trust G4S to run a discrimination helpline?

Liberty has produced a dossier of reported G4S failings

*Blog

"Looking ahead, the Single Market and 'fortress Europe', will become far less important"

Moderate Brexit: Liberal eurosceptic fight to keep us in EEA

*Blog

"The European Union is the world's largest donor and there are likely to be Brexit implications for a range of thematic policy areas"

What Brexit means for international development

*Blog

"The UK could still be sued under CETA's corporate courts for up to 20 years after Brexit"

The Canadian trade deal which will let in TTIP by the back door

*Blog

"Right now, Britain is the political laughing stock of the world. And it's our self-proclaimed "patriots" who have turned us into a joke"

Brexit: A country’s critics are its best friends

*Comment & Analysis

Labour seems intent on making sure we undergo a hard Brexit rather than a soft one

Pick of the week: The Brexit surrender

*Blog

"Owen Smith has faced repeated criticism for his time at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer"

Owen Smith’s Big Pharma past rules him out as Labour leader

*Blog

"The Childhood Obesity Plan is woefully short on government-led action"

Child obesity: Big business interests must not trump children’s health

*Blog

"Centrally located testing facilities would also be of greater use to the wider night time economy"

Fabric closure: Sadiq Khan must back drug safety tests for clubbers

*Blog

"The story is utter nonsense from beginning to end"

It wasn’t The Sun that got SAS soldier released from prison

*Blog

"Since being elected, Corbyn has made a number of substantial and inexcusable errors"

Brexit smashed austerity, but Corbyn is too lost to benefit

*Comment & Analysis

Prison authorities are often reluctant to reveal details of incidents inside

How the scale of UK’s prison crisis is kept under wraps

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