Fiona Woolf quits as head of inquiry into historic child sex abuse
The lawyer and Lord Mayor of London resigned over links to former Home Secretary Leon Brittan.
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Are Ed Miliband’s plans for English devolution too little, too late?
Is Ed Miliband's English devolution vow enough to assuage Labour's English crisis?
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Labour halts Ukip momentum with comfortable victory in South Yorkshire PCC by-election
Farage's party badly defeated after attempting to exploit Rotherham child abuse scandal.
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Margaret Atwood: “Ooooh! Are we going to talk about dying?”
The Canadian author reflects on ageing, generational inequality, reworking Shakespeare and writing stories that no one will read for a…
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Ordinary boy to arch-dictator: Stalin and the power of absolute conviction
Stalin emerges from Stephen Kotkin’s book as that most frightening of figures – a man of absolute conviction.
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“Hunger, filth, fear and death”: remembering life before the NHS
Harry Leslie Smith, a 91-year-old RAF veteran born into an impoverished mining family, recalls a Britain without a welfare state.
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Provocations to desire: Craig Raine delights in the nudes of Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele is candidly pornographic – but his obsession with anatomy tells the story of an artistic struggle.
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The future of public services in the 21st century
The realities of further fiscal consolidation present us with an opportunity to fundamentally re-shape public service provision.
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