Cambridge launched a campaign against harassment and sexual misconduct in 2017.
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Staff and students came forward after Cambridge launched an anonymous reporting tool in May 2017.
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It’s widely accepted that young people living in children’s homes or foster care are vulnerable to mental illness, but new research shows that social media can actually help.
Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement forced Mexico into a crisis that turned into an opportunity. Could the same happen again?
The offending work: John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs (1896).
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The decision to remove a 19th-century painting because of its portrayal of naked women was a heavy handed way of making a valid point.
Votes for 16 protest in London, 2016.
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The UK doesn’t have enough evidence to back votes for 16 and 17-year-olds.
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Reforms to the judiciary are a threat to democracy – and that affects us all.
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What the EU and UK agree and disagree on when it comes to the transition period after Brexit.
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This vote should be about the morality of letting women suffer.
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Compulsory participation could solve Wales’s political disengagement problem.
Meh.
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It was remarkable to see Donald Trump stay on script for a full 80 minutes. It also proved what a gruelling tradition the State of the Union is.
Sadiq Khan wants to ramp up police stop and search in London in a bid to stop knife crime.
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Stop and search contributes to marginalisation and has a corrosive impact on society.
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The nature of sexual offending has changed, but can we better identify sexual groomers before abuse occurs?
Emmerson Mnangagwa visits Jacob Zuma.
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Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa need to sharpen their thinking and get to work.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour managed something huge in 2017, even if turnout hasn’t proved to be as high as expected.
Anger at austerity brought people onto the streets in 2016.
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New research on the future of the welfare state found people lack confidence in the whole system of government, rather than individual politicians.
It hurts.
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It can be a destructive cycle for mothers whose children are taken into care.
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A giant rally in Thessaloniki and another in Athens show the strength of feeling in Greek Macedonia – and all over a country’s name.
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The British Election Study results have called the notion of a 2017 ‘youthquake’ into question. But that doesn’t mean parties will abandon social media campaigning any time soon.
International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt speaking in 2017.
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There needs to be a more honest debate around the topic of foreign aid – there isn’t much evidence in the claim that it’s a pressing concern for much of the public.
Lord Justice Leveson with the report from the first part of his 2012 inquiry into press conduct.
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News Group recently settled a number of cases relating to phone-hacking. What does this mean for the long awaited second part of the Leveson Inquiry?
Tick tock.
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Two toothless motions on repairing a decrepit parliament speak volumes about the state of British politics.
Miloš Zeman celebrates victory on January 27.
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Miloš Zeman, who has been re-elected for a second five year term at the Czech president, is not a run of the mill national populist.
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It’s quite possible that neither the US nor the UK will ever return to normal when it comes to political and constitutional balance.
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Why bother chasing big drugs operations when it makes no difference? Here are three reasons.
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After the most recent elections, Catalonia’s secessionist coalition is free to form a government. But their president is still exiled in Belgium.