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The time to organise resistance is now

Tony Benn and 73 others: We reject the cuts as simply malicious ideological vandalism, hitting the most vulnerable the hardest. Join us in the fight

End of the line for mobile calls? Good

Anna Pickard: We're talking less on mobiles, apparently. I can't wait for the time I won't have to overhear stupid, shouty conversations

Banning sex industry ads? Not very libertarian, Cameron

Rupert Myers: Ridding jobcentres of ads for sex industry work seems at odds with David Cameron's self-professed libertarianism

Pakistan's corrosive inequality

Mustafa Qadri: Zardari's decision to visit Europe as Pakistan is ravaged by floods reflects the elite's flagrant indifference to human suffering

What's wrong with weddings

Andrew Brown: The modern wedding is a celebration of the ego, which is the biggest enemy of the subsequent marriage

To beat Boris in London, Labour must bide its time

Jonathan Freedland: Choosing the mayoral candidate now is premature. Given longer, someone better than Ken or Oona might emerge

Burqas and bikinis

Priyamvada Gopal: Time magazine's cover is the latest cynical attempt to oversimplify the reality of Afghan lives

A father's view of going back to work: 'I felt genuinely devastated'

Alex Walsh: Much is written about women's conflict over work and children. But how does a new dad feel leaving his baby after two weeks?

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Poll

Safe as council houses

David Cameron has indicated that council homes will no longer be granted for life, but Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes has said that his party would need 'a lot of persuading' to be convinced of the plan's merits. Would you welcome a move towards fixed-tenure social housing?

(43%)

(57%)

Politics. And other stuff
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Free to believe
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