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Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
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The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
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