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The Independent Group may have a crucial role to play in our political system
February 18, 2019. In the future, we may look back upon this date as the moment when the British political system, characterised by its...


Shamima Begum: The Unrepentant Teenager Who Wants It All
The question on how to deal with foreign jihadis wanting to return to their country of birth has always been a complicated one, and the...


Claire Fox and ‘Generation Snowflake’
Claire Fox certainly cannot be described as timid. Coming, with some enthusiasm, to give a speech to a generation she described in her...


Austerity: A Story of Failure
In 2010 the country was only just beginning to re-emerge from the depths of the 2008 worldwide recession. Largely for this reason, voters...


Facial recognition technology needs to be effectively regulated to protect minorities
Does the implementation of facial recognition (FR) software by the Metropolitan Police signal the rise of the surveillance state? Or is...


Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit approach is stubborn and reckless
Initially, in the early days of Jeremy Corbyn’s premiership, I was one of the young Labour supporters who was on the side of the...


The Sajid’s ‘Migrant Crisis’
Over the Christmas period, much was made of the migrant ‘crisis’ in the English Channel, where between 200 and 300 people tried to cross...


The suffering have a right to die
For Noel Conway, death is always on the horizon. His only wish is the right to reach it painlessly and a time of his choosing. Since...


Is the United Kingdom worth the price to pay for Brexit?
As the House of Commons rages over the draft deal negotiated in November, with Theresa May’s government eternally lurching from crisis to...


Labour’s ‘Six Tests’ on Brexit: Feasible or a Fantasy?
The past few months in politics have been characterised by: ‘What if Theresa May cannot get her deal through’, ‘when will she resign’,...
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