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Cif at the polls

Editors' picks

Brown's barnstorming Citizens UK speech: what took so long?

Jonathan Freedland: Brown should have been delivering this kind of pitch everywhere

New Labour is a parasite. A vote for them is born of fear, not hope

George Monbiot: A movement for social justice has had its brain rewired to serve the rich. I cannot join colleagues in urging that it be saved

How I'm vote-swapping to block the Tories

Jackie Ashley: A friend is Streatham is backing the Labour candidate for me, while I'll be voting Liberal Democrat in Richmond for him

It's not too late to help swing the election

Gaby Hinsliff: There's still time to do your bit in getting the vote out – especially when seven in 10 voters don't even know they're in a marginal

When you vote on Thursday, don't forget Clapham Park

Polly Toynbee: The estate where I lived is testament to Labour's highs and lows. But all that is good here is bound to fall victim to Tory cuts

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Editors' picks

BP oil spill: A very visible disaster

Paul Krugman: If Obama can seize the moment, this oil spill could help reverse the slide of US environmentalism

Law on brothels puts prostitutes at risk

Diane Taylor: Preventing sex workers operating together makes them more vulnerable to attack – we need a more pragmatic approach

How will Greece's tragedy end?

Matina Stevis: With its huge austerity programme and bailout, the country could be on the mend in a year … or be pushed out of the eurozone

It's not sexist to accept that biology affects behaviour

Simon Baron-Cohen: Biological determinism has been attacked for underpinning gender stereotypes but this is to misunderstand our work

79 months and counting ...

Andrew Simms: Eyjafjallajökull provided a glimpse of a possible future in which the aviation industry's wings have been clipped

John Harris's election tour

  • Ipswich: Face to face with the realities of coalition

    3 May 2010: John Harris: Video: What do you get when you cross a Tory with a Lib Dem? Cuts, cuts, cuts

Poll

Wrinkle picker

Veteran rocker Iggy Pop is touring the UK with his band The Stooges and no performance would be complete without his trademark bare torso. But the ravages of time are catching up: is it time for Iggy to keep his shirt on?

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Thread of the day

  1. Best of the Web

  2. 1. National journal: Do 'family values' weaken families?
    If you want to find stable two-parent families, bypass Palin country and go to Pelosi territory
  3. 2. Raincoat optimism: Don't vote for the BNP
    Britain faces many problems, some of which have yet to be realised yet before we've reached that worrying period of austerity and cutbacks, but the British National Party are not the solution
  4. 3. Alternet: Crazy? Stupid?
    Tea Party supporters are neither
  5. 4. Stephen Fry: How I will vote...
    This country cannot proceed along any lines that make sense or promise hope unless we can all get along no matter how we vote (tip via jmcesteves on Twitter)
  6. 5. Liberal Conspiracy: Sunder Katwala
    This is how the Tories plan to seize power in a Hung Parliament (tip via BickerRecord on Twitter)

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