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With Trump as president-elect, and the populist right on the rise in Europe, will Britain manage to stand its ground?

Women using abortion clinics in England and Wales are finally being protected... up to a point As of 31 October, buffer zones are now officially in force around abortion clinics in England and Wales – ...

Michael Binyon is an English journalist and currently a Leader Writer for The Times. He was a winner of two British journalism prizes in 1979 and 1980 for his reporting from Russia and awarded an OBE ...

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James Hannam is the author of God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science (Icon, 2009) which was shortlisted for the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

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Mark Steel is a broadcaster and columnist for the Independent. His latest book, Vive la Revolution, is published by Scribner.

James Crabtree is Director of Public Services at the Institute for Public Policy Research. He worked previously in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and in 2008 worked for Barack Obama's campaign in ...