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Statelessness Should Never Be An Option

The news broke earlier this week that the Home Office backed, inevitably, by Teresa May, plans to “find a way of overturning international human rights conventions”, and seize the power to confiscate the passports of susp...

by L.

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A New Brand Of Politics?

In an expletive-spattered, 4,500 word opus as guest editor for the New Statesman, and a clash with Jeremy Paxman on BBC’s Newsnight, British comedian Russell Brand declared the political system irreparably broken, and in the ...

by Naomi Hanna

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The Insane Politics Of Mental Health

Politicians are paying more attention to the issues of mental health but there is a long way to go before it is taken as seriously as physical health. One in four people will experience a mental health problem at some point in ...

by Shehrazade Zafar-Arif

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Pride In The Face Of Russia

Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride is this month’s must-see in London’s West End, and its timely revival is far from incidental. Jamie Lloyd’s brilliant young cast will not only leave you feeling entertained and intellectu...

by Stefanie Mair

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How Far Can The Law Protect Us?

The law is supposed to dispense justice, both for the accused and for their victims. But in a flawed world with legal loopholes and “ordinary” criminals, we must confront the possibility that horror can become reali...

by Shehrazade Zafar-Arif

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Business As Usual

The Snowden revelations have cause us to re-examine our internet freedom and right to self-privacy. The far reaching surveillance by the National Security Agency and the rest of the Five Eyes (Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealan...

by Andrew Herweg

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Immigrants Are People Too, With Stories: Here’s Mine.

There is something startling in how little the British seem to know about their history. The same holds true for the majority of Europeans. I arrived in the UK aged 13 from Portugal in 2004. My father had been in England for 1...

by Davide Castro

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Hetty Bower, Political Activist, Dies Aged 108

Hetty Bower was born in 1905 and throughout her life campaigned for numerous causes that she believed in from the suffragette movement to the 1926 General Strike, the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, being a founding member of the ...

by Joe Corry-Roake

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6 Cities Designing Transport For Women

Women and men have different requirements in public space and transport. Which cities out there are acknowledging that? I love British headlines. More often than not, they scream blue murder about something which would seem qua...

by Future Cape Town

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Statelessness Should Never Be An Option

A New Brand Of Politics?

The Insane Politics Of Mental Health

Pride In The Face Of Russia

How Far Can The Law Protect Us?

Business As Usual

Immigrants Are People Too, With Stories: Here’s Mine.

Hetty Bower, Political Activist, Dies Aged 108

6 Cities Designing Transport For Women

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