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Why prioritising women and children in the refugee crisis is a terrible idea
As the UK agrees to take in more Syrian refugees, there are calls to put "women and children first". But such prioritising won't help. As the tide starts to turn in favour of helping refugees instead...
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Could an app walk you home safely?
The Companion app lets friends and family follow your walk home and connects you to emergency services with the touch of a button. A woman walks down the street, followed by a floating shield avatar...
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Gibraltar: the minnow bites back?
The Gibraltar football team has a long tradition of punching above its weight. This weekend it suffered a 4-0 defeat to Ireland but heads should be held high. People used to talk about “plucky little...
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How psychedelia transformed pop culture
There are things known, and there are things unknown - and they’re all in Rob Chapman’s cultural history of LSD, Psychedelia and Other Colours. If Aldous Huxley had got his way, this book would have...
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Five years in the death of the British justice system
Cuts to legal aid don't just hit the vulnerable - they erode a fundamental right, explains Charlie Falconer. Lord Bingham, the former Lord Chief Justice and one of our great judges, once said that the...
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Why the government is wrong to refuse an amnesty for illegal immigrants
An amnesty for Britain's illegal migrants has been championed by both the left and right – it's time David Cameron stopped ignoring the pragmatic and moral policy proposal. The incomprehensible sight...
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Iain Duncan Smith calls people without a disability "normal"
FFS, IDS. Iain Duncan Smith, usually so sympathetic towards disabled people – he selflessly takes their benefits away to help them into work, after all – has called people without disabilities...
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Why aren’t the Gulf states taking more Syrian refugees?
The five Gulf countries, the majority of which have significant wealth, have taken zero refugees. Saudi Arabia does a great job of exporting Wahhabism, but not such a great job of dealing with one of...
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The only difference between us and Europe's refugees? Time - and luck
David Cameron's callous surrender of moral responsibility cuts me to the quick in more ways than one. As I make my morning coffee, I listen to the radio detailing Cameron’s latest refusal to face up...
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Watch: MEP in a Merkel mask interrupts Jean-Claude Juncker's State of the...
The President of the European Parliament had to pause proceedings to ask Gianluca Buonanno to remove his mask of the German Chancellor. DRAMA at Jean-Claude Juncker's State of the Union speech in...
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How did it become acceptable for Britain to treat refugees so badly?
The asylum system that Britain has ended up with is not just inhumane, it is impractical for anyone who wants to reduce net migration. The coffin was white, bearing only the marking “Body No: 132”. It...
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No country for old men: meet the young farmers undaunted by Europe’s...
Despite land taxes, subsidies and falling dairy prices, Britain’s young farmers are looking on the bright side.“Tell me what you want, Jamie; what you really, really want,” 20-year-old Jake Ball calls...
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A better future for Northern Ireland
This last few weeks have been difficult ones for the Executive. But a better future is still in reach, says Ivan Lewis. I have grown to love Northern Ireland and care about its future as much as my...
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Queen Elizabeth II is about to become Britain's longest reigning monarch, so...
She’s 7 per cent of English history since the Conquest, fact fans. Congratulations Britain: God is clearly on your side, and paying attention every time you sing the national anthem. For today is an...
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Hong Kong’s new feminist wave
Hong Kong has long been home to sexism and inequality with little protest. But things are starting to change. The throng of defiant, energetic men with bras strapped around their chests was the first...
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Watch: Michael Crick chases a “spying” Tory press officer from a Jeremy...
Conservative regional press officer Mike Watkinson left the event after being outed by the Channel 4 reporter. A Tory press officer was forced to leave a Jeremy Corbyn campaign event in Nuneaton after...
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Forcing the Queen to watch Danny from The Script cover Heroes in the Live...
One clap. Every time there's a big Queen story, your mole goes through a complex range of emotions. At first, disgust. What is it with this obsequious country of cringing subjects, celebrating an...
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Ten per cent of Brits believe they're going to Hell – I think I might be one...
I'm not one to believe in the invisible sky person, but even I sometimes wonder whether I might be going to Hell.“I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious,” fictional idiot David Brent’s...
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The deadlock in Northern Ireland has as much to do with welfare cuts as the IRA
There is a bitter divide over how the Conservatives’ welfare cuts can be imposed on Northern Ireland. Crisis talks have begun Northern Ireland as politicians grapple to bring the Stormont parliament...
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Metal Gear Solid V is total nonsense – and one of the best video games ever made
In one beautiful, absurd, compelling, infantile work Hideo Kojima and his team have produced the supreme example of the importance of gameplay.Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is full of nonsense....
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