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Is immigration as big an issue as some politicians say?
The elephant in the room that no politician will discuss or even mention is that most European countries, including the UK, ...
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COP29 puts world on course for more extreme weather – and more deaths
Summit proves change won’t come until floods and wildfires are killing tens of thousands in rich Global North cities ...
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I’m disabled. Here’s why I am scared of the assisted dying bill
The bill puts us at risk of coercion by family members, and doctors wrongly predicting that we are going to die ...
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Migrants’ rights workers forced out of Tunisia in latest crackdown
Rachid (a pseudonym) is a Tunisian who worked to support stranded migrants in Tunisia for two years. He and his colleagues ...
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Sex workers need the police to do better, not more
We know policing often harms sex workers. We need to talk about what it would take to change tack Policing often harms sex ...
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The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s ‘close partnership’
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves hosting an investment roundtable discussion with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and members of the BlackRock executive board at 10 Downing Street Senior executives from ...
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Why it’s time for the UK to introduce a new law to allow assisted dying
In the UK, we pride ourselves on our shared values of compassion, dignity, and respect for individual choice. Yet, our laws ...
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Smuggling is back out in the open in Niger. What’s the impact on migrants?
After an anti-smuggling law was repealed, much of smuggling was decriminalised – research suggests migrants are safer ...
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Should assisted dying be legalised? Readers share their thoughts
After we published op-eds from opposing sides of assisted dying debate, many readers wrote in to give their opinion ...