Outside the system
Category: UK Politics
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Parliament’s Financial Watchdog Launches Investigation into Boris Johnson’s No Deal Brexit
“Lessons can still be learned from the previous period of ‘no deal’ planning, where in some cases rushed decisions meant taxpayers’ money was not spent well,” says National Audit Office.
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Violence, Drugs, Terror: A Day in Court with our Top Conservatives
Crime writer Duncan Campbell takes his seat in the press bench for a most satisfying trio of cases.
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White Nationalism Is a Global Crisis – It’s Time for Gun Laws Across the West to be Re-Examined
CJ Werleman argues that mass shootings in the US to further a white nationalist agenda could spread to other parts of the Western democratic world – for which it must be prepared.
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SPITTING BACK: Today’s Politicians? ‘It’s Difficult to Make a Puppet of a Puppet’
Peter Fluck made his name as the co-creator of Spitting Image. Now an artist, he says the current crop of politicians do a good job of satirising themselves.
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What is the Westminster Russia Forum?
Stephen Komarnyckyj on the pro-Kremlin group linked to the Conservative Party – and what it says about Britain.
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Brits Seeking to Live and Work in Europe after No Deal’Brexit will be Left in ‘Purgatory’ as Member States Plan to Tighten Up Laws
David Hencke’s analysis of the restrictive measures being drawn up by European countries and EU member states on the post-Brexit fate of British nationals seeking to make their lives there.
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Lies, Damned Lies and the Daily Telegraph
Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at Westminster University, on why broadcasters, academics and members of the public should be careful to trust newspaper coverage of polls and call out bogus claims about public opinion.
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‘Doctors Forced to Carry out Practices they Believe to be Unethical’ for Counter-Terrorism
How is the duty on healthcare professionals to refer individuals vulnerable to terrorism under the Prevent strategy injecting racialised interactions between doctor and patient into the NHS?
