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Why Not to have a Referendum on the EU

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Papatya Sutcliffe on the Commons rebellion
"Roy Liddle’s cruel depiction of the average British voter as a 'window-licking halfwit' in the Sunday Times seems excessive..."

Fasting unto death and the modern Indian Satyagrahi

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Unmissable insight into the Indian anti corruption fast
"How legitimate or fair can the use of this age-old technique of 'Fast-unto-death' be?"


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Planning Permission

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Only on The Berry, Cambridge's only political viewspaper
"There is of course no question that the occupants of Dale Farm stepped outside the bounds of acceptable action"

In the shadow of WTC: the Occupation

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Katie Young on the Occupy movement
"What is David Cameron to do when his own political jingo of the ‘Big Society’ is repackaged and sent back with teeth?"

Teenage Riot!

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Siana Bangura tackles the riots
"Through the mountains of rubbish I came across, only one thing seemed to be clear from each source: Britain has had enough. "

The cult of cynicism

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Lucy James on political cynicism
"the over reporting of political scandal and the under-reporting of government successes is what sells and is probably here to stay"

Turkey - the new Russia?

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Ed Winfield on Turkey
"The ruling AKP are accused of Islamising a markedly secular country, and Turkey has the highest number of journalists imprisoned in the world"

Germany tires of this Greek Tragedy

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Our man in Berlin on the Greek crisis
"He exits with the exclamation: ‘Everything is kaput! All our money has gone to those damn Greeks!’"