Tom Clarke
Campaign to keep Devon’s beavers from being evicted
Beavers who have set up home in Devon should be left alone and allowed to flourish, wildlife enthusiasts say, as the government announces plans to re-locate them.
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Geoff White
The truth about Facebook: it plays with your emotions all the time
It’s not just a clever use of technology, or a one-off experiment: tracking and manipulating your emotions are at the very heart of Facebook’s success.
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Gary Gibbon
Can Miliband persuade voters he’s tough on welfare?
Labour Ed Miliband is focusing on welfare changes to convince voters he’s not weak leader. But he risks antagonising parts of his party in the process.
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Attitudes to immigration are hardening – survey
Britons are showing an increasingly hardline attitude towards immigrants, according to a major new survey of social attitudes.
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Jackie Long
‘Threatened’ for publicising poverty: an uncharitable tale
Charities working with the poorest in society say government attitudes to their work are increasingly hostile.
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Jackie Long
Disability claims backlog brings hardship and anxiety say campaigners
This piece is not news. It’s not new. The Department for Work and Pensions told me. Four or five times. But I thought it was worth marking anyway.
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Statins plan means ‘unjustified’ medicalisation of millions
Leading doctors publish an open letter to the Health Secretary expressing concerns at proposals to massively increase the number of healthy patients being prescribed cholesterol-reducing statins.
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Metal spikes – treating homeless people like pigeons?
The attitude towards homeless people that led to metal spikes being installed outside a block of flats in central London to stop rough sleepers is criticised by charities.
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Big Issue founder: my magazine gives a hand-up, not hand-out
As the work and pensions secretary says vendors of the Big Issue exploited a loophole allowing immigrants access to UK benefits, the magazine’s founder says the Big Issue saves the taxpayer money.
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Cathy Newman
MPs should ditch the focus groups and speak from the heart
MPs with character are few and far between these days. Those who look and speak like a fully paid-up member of the human race tend to find themselves out of government.
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Wooing Scotland: what are the pro-union parties offering?
The Conservatives are offering the Scottish parliament the power to set income tax if Scots vote to the stay in the union. What are the other main parties putting on the table?
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Going Dutch – should our pensions be modelled on Holland’s?
Dutch-style collective pensions are reportedly due to be unveiled by the government in the Queen’s Speech, but would they leave us better off?
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Black and white students learning together: a dying dream?
1960s campaigns made massive strides in de-segregating US education. But as requirements on schools to educate black and white students are relaxed, re-segregation is becoming increasingly prevalent.
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FactCheck: will an independent Scotland be better or worse off?
Scots will either be £1,000 better off or £1,400 worse off if they vote for independence, according to the UK and Scottish governments. Who to believe?
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UK and Scottish governments at odds over independence costs
Scottish people could lose £1,400 if they vote for independence, Treasury Minister Danny Alexander warns. But Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond accuses the UK government of “scaremongering”.
