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UK Politics
No one made the case for elected mayors
04 May 2012

The government did almost nothing to sell the idea to voters.

Politics
This investigation is about more than Mark Duggan
28 April 2012

It is time for the police to prioritise the issue of community engagement.

Voices
The issues surrounding youth crime
23 April 2012

Who is best qualified to tackle this problem?

Society
The riots: local leaders are the answer
28 March 2012

It's rather hard to attack people that are so obviously a part of your community.

Society
Gang crime: another approach
20 February 2012

Charities like Aasha Gang Mediation provide the things that working parents and the state can't.

Helen Lewis
Take Me Out and the failures of feminism
17 February 2012

In this guest post, Alan White says that the ideology has taken a pounding from the postmodernist wrecking ball.

Environment
The strange case of the disappearing department
08 February 2012

Has anyone heard from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs?

The Staggers
The real role of the police
04 February 2012

These days, police officers help put a sticking plaster on society's ills.

UK Politics
My Grant Shapps obsession
30 January 2012

The Tory minister who has demanded my attention.

Society
We need to talk seriously about crime
27 January 2012

The truth, kept scandalously quiet, is that most crime is both committed and suffered by the same people.

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