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BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - APRIL 05: Prime Minister David Cameron holds a Q&A session on the forthcoming European Union referendum with staff of PricewaterhouseCoopers on April 5, 2016 in Birmingham, England. The UK will vote on whether or not to remain in the European Union on June 23, 2016. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Brexit or Bremain?

With the referendum just two months away, public education-led engagement with the issues of Brexit remains tardy because politically disparate groups

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TOPSHOT - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addresses the media holding a printed report of the judgement of the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on his case from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on February 5, 2016.
During a press conference on February 5 Julian Assange, speaking via video-link, called for Britain and Sweden to 'implement' a UN panel finding saying that he should be able to walk free from Ecuador's embassy, where he has lived in self-imposed confinement since 2012. / AFP / NIKLAS HALLE'N

Whistle-blower’s victory

A U.N. panel’s ruling that Julian Assange’s confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London constitutes “arbitrary detention” deals a reputational bl

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Labour Party leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in north London, Britain September 11, 2015. Corbyn, the leading candidate to win control of Britain's opposition Labour Party said he would introduce a punitive windfall tax, aimed at recouping money lost by privatising state assets too cheaply, if he becomes prime minister in 2020. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

Swing to the Left

Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto offers an alternative rooted in fairness, decency and social justice, but to win the next elections, the new Labour Party l

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha return to Number 10 Downing Street after meeting with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in London, Britain May 8, 2015. Prime Minister David Cameron won a stunning election victory in Britain, overturning poll predictions that the vote would be the closest in decades to sweep easily into office for another five years, with his Labour opponents in tatters. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

Stunning victory

David Cameron’s Conservative Party beats all predictions and emerges as the winner in the general election.

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Bold & different

RT, the London-based Russian state-funded broadcasting channel, is the new kid on the block that established players ridicule and fear because it does

PARVATHI MENON in London

Against caste in Europe

Anti-caste campaigners in the United Kingdom score a major victory with the E.U. passing a resolution to put caste within a global rights framework.

PARVATHI MENON in London

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