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Sheila Bird :: Thu, 12/01/2012 - 14:00

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One question or two? Let's have a referendum

David Lipsey :: Thu, 13/10/2011 - 12:29

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Is Cameron’s sex appeal waning?

David Lipsey :: Wed, 14/09/2011 - 13:57

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Misrepresenting Ed Miliband's chances

Sheila Bird :: Thu, 09/06/2011 - 14:31

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What works in criminal justice? Time to find out

What’s a guilty plea worth? One third off the custodial tariff (the current arrangement) or a 50 per cent reduction in sentence for an early plea?

Nigel Hawkes :: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 10:19

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No thanks, says Boris

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, (pictured) doesn’t appear too impressed by the rap on the knuckles he recei

Nigel Hawkes :: Tue, 04/01/2011 - 14:47

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Waiting times raise the political temperature

Andrew Lansley’s appearance before the Health Select Committee on December 12 produced an argument fit for the fourth form.

Nigel Hawkes :: Tue, 21/12/2010 - 16:41

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Picking apart Lib Dem support among the young

Today’s Guardian poll report acknowledges the point made

Nigel Hawkes :: Thu, 09/12/2010 - 11:30

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Racist or meritocratic? Oxbridge maligned

David Lammy MP claims to have extracted some interesting information about the admission of black students to Oxford and Cambridge through freedom of information requests.

David Lipsey :: Tue, 30/11/2010 - 14:41

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The perils of overplaying the polls

On 23 November The Guardian published a political poll showing that Labour was ahead as Ed Miliband returned from paternity leav

Nigel Hawkes :: Mon, 01/11/2010 - 16:12

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Taking liberties with the “liberal gene”

Scientists find the gene that makes you a liberal, reported the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and the Daily Express last week.