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David Cameron's Syrian refugee U-turn can't disguise his ignorance or mask...

Britain needs to accept as many Syrian refugees as it can or we are failing in a basic human duty.

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George Osborne attacks free school meals and we need to fight back

83% of teachers say some pupils arrive at school with empty stomachs.

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Don't let an egg-throwing minority define a popular resistance to the Tories...

The majority of protesters at the Conservative Party Conference are non-violent.

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Sandi Toksvig's Women's Equality Party is a middle-class ladies' campaign...

Oxbridge-educated Toksvig is privileged enough to be able to ignore that class inequality is a feminist issue.

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John Lewis Christmas advert: Don't buy to show compassion, volunteer to help...

The power of capitalism has turned emotional manipulation into a major cultural event.

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Does the end of FHM and Zoo indicate the death of lad culture or a glut of...

While feminists and campaigners may cheer the demise of lads mags, misogyny has simply moved online.

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Katie Hopkins and Donald Trump: You aren't brave free speech pioneers...

Among a subset of the privileged, there's a self-righteous hunger to find something to feel oppressed about.

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It's my choice to become an organ donor, not my family's - anyone who...

Losing a loved one is hard. But grief doesn't grant you the right to play God over the life and death of others.

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2016: That dark time in history should be a warning...

If we keep turning a blind eye to the mistreatment of refugees, who can say how low our society could sink?

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Hillary Clinton: Having a female president is not as important as helping...

Middle class feminists who support Hillary don't care that her policies won't help poor women.

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Of course government wants to erode our right to strike - it'll benefit rich...

People earning the least are often the ones to gain most from industrial action.

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A privately educated elite still run the UK - and we're barely trying to...

Just 7% of the UK population attended fee-paying schools, but they dominate numerous middle-class careers.

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To Jess Phillips and all MPs - if you don't want our scrutiny, don't work in...

MPs face an unusual amount of scrutiny because they do a job that gives them an unusual amount of power.

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There is more to the prostitution debate than privileged sex workers and...

Calling outspoken sex workers an unrepresentative elite over-simplifies the prostitution debate.

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Labour must capitalise on this critical change in public mood against the...

Osborne's strategy of picking on the vulnerable worked for a bit - but there's a limit to what we'll tolerate.

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Bernie Sanders inspired hope – now voters are left with the hopelessness of...

Sanders' message is that real change is possible, but Clinton basically says that this is as good as it gets.

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