Tough on immigration? UKIP supporters are listening.
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Ipsos Mori are asking thousands about their views on this polarising topic.
Italian aid worker Vanessa Marzullo freed after being kidnapped in Syria in 2014.
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It’s in the public interest to allow families to pay ransoms for the return of their loved ones.
The relationship with Indonesia is more important than the protest over two dead drug traffickers and Australians need their ambassador in Jakarta.
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Australians are the ones who suffer when consular support is weakened overseas.
Are Britain and Germany going in the same direction?
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The Conservatives argue that the rest of Europe wants reform too. Is this true?
Genes but no jeans – mozzie bliss.
Rick Miller
Being bitten by mosquitoes may not be pleasant but they’re after your unique microbial fingerprint.
Moving out? Plaid’s plans for relocation are light on the details.
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Plaid Cymru doesn’t have much detail to offer when it comes to defence.
Whichever language you speak, you are welcome.
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Speaking more than one language isn’t just about getting better job propspects or superior brain power.
Halls of power.
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Labour’s 2015 manifesto has a feel that we are not yet getting their full thinking on how Britain should be governed.
Big guns for big jobs.
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With three billion internet users and rising, a device that turns surfers into shells is a dangerous development.
High five.
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April 13, 2015
Maria Goddard , University of York ; Anand Menon , King's College London ; Christine Merrell , Durham University ; Claudia Hupkau , London School of Economics and Political Science ; Hilary Steedman , London School of Economics and Political Science ; Ian Preston , UCL ; Jonathan Perraton , University of Sheffield , and Steve Higgins , Durham University
Our experts crunch the evidence on Labour’s big ticket policies.
The EU is not top of the agenda in this little book.
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Above and beyond a defence of membership, the manifesto makes little in the way of pledges about EU policy.
The citizens came in two by two.
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Study finds identical twins more likely to vote the same way – unless they back the Lib Dems.
Students continue to fight against tuition fees.
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Research comparing reforms in Scotland and England shows higher university fees reduce applications.
Hold your breath.
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New research has found a link between exposure to air pollutants during pregnancy and abnormalities in children’s brains. But how at risk are we?
Miliband appealed to spooked businesses with a warning about the EU.
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Opening his campaign, Miliband warned an EU referendum would be bad for business. But not holding one could have serious consequences too.
Proof that research leaves a mark.
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The diversity of research impact makes it tricky to measure in numbers.
It seems MPs like Iain Duncan Smith could do with some basic statistics training.
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When MPs can’t get to grips with basic statistics, it’s bad for democracy.
5G, wringing out the network cloth for the most capacity possible.
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5G network design will have to find more inventive and less expensive ways of speeding up wireless networks.
Syrian refugees arrive in Hannover, Germany.
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The data shows that most of us could afford to do more to shelter those fleeing from Syria’s civil war.
Here’s looking at you.
Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen
Winners of the Wellcome Images Award 2015 tell us about how they got their special shot.