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Many of us have just celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. Not because it was a great piece of legislation – it wasn’t. But it was a major achievement for disabled people in the long campaign for equal rights. The disability...

Policing has been steadily rising on the political agenda over recent months as the impact of the government’s drastic cuts to the policing budget is increasingly felt, and concern mounts about the consequences to public safety. This was epitomised in Labour’s...

Since September we have undergone a change in the Labour party that has not been seen since 1997. We have had a huge spike in membership, with both returning and new members, inspired by the leadership election and the debate that has gone on from it. But the...

What has science ever done for us? That was one of the questions I raised yesterday in my debate on the role of the Treasury in supporting science in the United Kingdom. Well, what has it done for us? Why do we need to use public funds, taxpayers’ money, to support...