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Sunday, 27 February 2011 00:00
The announcement last Friday that Doncaster Council will not close the 14 libraries under threat for twelve months was greeted with celebration. Had the council finally given way to public pressure and opinion?
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Since Saturday night I've been here in the West Bank, based in Abu Dis (a suburb of Jerusalem), and am flying home on Sunday evening. A half-term holiday with a difference.
In his speech setting out plans for welfare reform, David Cameron says he is passionate about creating a new culture of responsibility in his Big Society. Doncaster residents disagree.
Domestic violence means women and children living in fear and suffering significant emotional and physical harm. But despite this local councils are decimating domestic violence services.
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Tough on the City? Don't make me laugh. Half the Tories' donations come from the Square Mile, while Conservative dads buy their kids internships in City firms.
Revolution shatters the arrogance of power. In the same gesture it can wipe away years of accumulated apathy, alienation and defeat.
Iraq and Afghanistan taught me that I could weep at the suffering of people I'd had never met but until the Egyptian Revolution I did not know that I could dance in the street to celebrate something happening on the other side of the world.
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Anita De Clerk argues that Edward Woolard's punishment is being used distract to public discourse from the crimes of the state.
Twenty five years ago Rupert Murdoch broke the print trade unions. Now he is poised to own a media company worth more than the combined revenue of the BBC, ITV, C4 and Channel 5.
Lindsey German: The growing revolutionary ferment in the Middle East is bad news for western imperialism as one by one their Arab tyrant friends face the wrath of their long oppressed people.
Installing Andy Coulson as the ConDem's spin-doctor-in-chief was always a big risk. But then the Tories, like their City-dwelling compatriots, love to gamble.
The world is witnessing a wave of resistance to austerity that offers to shift power from the hands of politicians and markets and onto the streets argues Ben Beach.
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It is essential that we keep up pressure on EMA. The government must not be allowed to get away with disenfranchising poorer young people from education.
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