Ian Dunt
Editor of Politics.co.uk. Author of Brexit: What The Hell Happens Now? Host on @RemainiacsCast. Says stuff on TV & radio.
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Revealed: Letter shows UK govt indifference to European voters
After countless European citizens were disenfranchised, letters reveals government's shambolic handling of their voting data.
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Revealed: The shambolic handling of the data which disenfranchised countless EU citizens
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The trade remedy problem: Brexit no-deal plan in disarray
Reports emerge of under-skilled staff, confusion, and hatred of criticism in department with key role under no-deal Brexit.
#DeniedMyVote was unlawful - help the3million challenge the Government
Nicolas Hatton is a French national who lives in Bristol and a UK resident since 1995. Nicolas is CEO of the3million, the main organisation representing EU citizens in the UK
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The @the3million are crowdfunding to take the govt to court over the disenfranchisement of European citizens in the recent elections.
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Migration Dividend Fund: We'll spread the benefits of immigration & win the argument
New plan would see benefits of immigration made real to small towns and suffering areas.
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Interesting & pragmatic proposal from @Global__Future on using a Migration Dividend Fund to distribute the benefits of immigration away from London and south east
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I’ll take you to court to block a no-deal Brexit, Gina Miller tells Boris Johnson
Activist is reassembling team of top barristers to stop parliament being shut down to push through Brexit against wishes of MPs
Week in Review: Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold
Tories and Labour are stuck in a reverse arms race, making each other even worse by virtue of their own collapse.
Darroch stitch-up shows how quickly Brexiters turn against the national interest
Attempt to politicise civil service in a humiliating attack on British diplomatic prestige suggests patriotism of Farage and his allies is overstated.
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'Why would anyone would take diplomatic disclosures of this proportion to a writer as openly partisan as Isabel Oakeshott, if not to have them spun into the pro-Brexit web of disinformation?' - @chris_allnutt on the Darroch affair
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An Explosive Secret Recording Reveals How Russia Secretly Tried To Funnel Millions To The “European Trump”
A close aide to Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini held covert talks to pump Russian oil money to his far-right party. BuzzFeed News has the tape.
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Incredible story. @AlbertoNardelli obtains audio recording of meeting in which tens of millions of dollars of Russian oil money was directed towards Salvini’s far-right Lega party, in bid to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.
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Trafficked: The Chinese women trapped in British detention centres
New evidence suggests Home Office breaks its own safeguards to lock up trafficked women in damning indictement of detention system.
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Women from China make up the largest group of women in British immigration detention centres. Many have been subject to rape, abuse and coercion in China & the UK before the Home Office locks them up
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Trump ambassador revelations: Brexiters reveal the Trump-love game-plan
Trump ambassador revelations highlight the servility that lies beneath the movement for total British sovereignty.
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The weird world of Brexit nationalism: where we attack British diplomats for briefing their govt and insist the US president gets to select their replacement
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When you scratch at the surface of this movement for total British sovereignty, you quite often find servility to the US lying underneath
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Week in Review: Remain starts to gather
Behind the scenes, signs emerge of high-level Remain coordination which could frustrate Boris Johnson's attempts at no-deal.
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Remain by-election coordination. Tory working majority slipping away. Encouraging parliamentary shenanigans. Some glimmers of optimism this week, behind all the noise
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Emergency Appeal
At a meeting on June 27th 2019, the Trustees resolved that we need to launch an emergency rescue fundraising effort to address our very serious financial challenges and to provide the working capital now needed to continue our activities.
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The Jubilee Sailing Trust mission to get £1m quid this week or face closure is going down to the wire. They're on £850,501. That is painfully fucking close
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Jubilee Sailing Appeal now 93% of the way there - with a few hours to go. If they don't make it, it's all been for nothing. Please help out.
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Lies, politicians and the criminal law: How do we solve a problem like Boris?
The private case trying to take Boris Johnson to court for lying in the Brexit referendum campaign has fallen apart. So how can we tackle deception in politics?
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Defeat him at the ballot box, not in court: @StevePeers on the Boris Johnson legal case
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The inconvenient truth about Ursula von der Leyen
The woman nominated for Commission chief has plenty of critics back home.
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Decent profile of Ursula von der Leyen, who has just been put forward as the next Commission boss. Mixed reviews, at best.
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Breaking News: Sandman TV Series Coming to Netflix
Morpheus, the raven-haired Lord of Dreams, has existed for much of creation and has traveled far and wide throughout that time.
Deja-vu Brexit: The Tory leadership race is a grotesque rerun of the 2016 campaign
All the old promises, all the old lies. It's like the last three years never happened.
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Deja-vu Brexit: How the Tory leadership race turned into a rerun of all the nonsense from the referendum campaign
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Can Johnson survive his first weeks in No.10?
From losing his majority to a vote of no-confidence: How Boris Johnson's 'honeymoon period' could be a baptism of fire.
Week in Review: Putin comes clean
Vladimir Putin outlines his all-out war on liberalism, in a battle that includes Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini, Donald Trump and Brexit.
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Putin's attack on liberalism is useful. It makes it explicit. We are fighting a political war for the idea of individual freedom
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Anti-Brexit parties need a Remain alliance while there's still time
Whether Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt admit it or not, there's an election coming - and Remain is still more split than Leave.
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No matter what they say, a general election is highly likely this year. Last time Remain was - bafflingly - taken by surprise. No excuses this time. We need an electoral alliance
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The Remain Alliance: What anti-Brexit parties need to do *now* to defeat Johnson and Farage
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100 years of the library: The service we should value like the NHS - but don't
Cuts have slashed the library service down to a sad reflection of its former self, and our public debate has corroded.
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The library service celebrates its centenary this year. No DCMS press release. No events planned. It's the service we stopped caring about.
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