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The best places to open a brothel The Commons all-party group on prostitution has called for a Scandinavian-style law where selling sex would not be illegal but buying it would be. How does the world treat prostitution? — In a survey of 100 countries by the educational charity ProCon, 50 were judged to treat prostitution
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said Russia was to blame for ‘violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another country’ by invading Ukraine, so ‘we shall have to bring to bear diplomatic, political, economic and other pressures’. Britain, with Russia and the United States, is a signatory to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, guaranteeing
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Dear Mr Ashworth, Thank you for your letter. I will try to respond to your specific questions but, as you recognise, in doing so my overriding concern must be to avoid doing anything to prejudice or undermine an on-going police investigation. Downing Street became aware of a potential offence relating to child abuse imagery on
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In this week’s Spectator magazine, James Forsyth interviews the Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin. McLoughlin admits that the government is unlikely legislation to get the HS2 Bill through Parliament before the next election — which could leave a major threat over the project in 2015. ‘There are a bevy of Tory MPs opposed to having HS2 run through
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William Hague, the Foreign Secretary who is off to Kiev tomorrow, has issued the following statement:- ‘I am deeply concerned at the escalation of tensions in Ukraine, and the decision of the Russian parliament to authorise military action on Ukrainian soil against the wishes of the Ukrainian Government. This action is a potentially grave threat
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‘Well, I’d like to join in the benefits debate, but I’ve got to go to work.’
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Closet racist
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‘And the fourth little pig, he built his house from glass and steel, left it vacant and waited for values to soar.’
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‘It appears that our mother is too posh to push.’
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‘Bloody Impressionist paparazzi.’
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‘It’s a robbery, sarge, but be careful, they’re armed.’
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‘It’s a Ukrainian doll — it breaks up into increasingly small, angry factions.’
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‘Was it something he said?’
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‘My phone’s been fracked.’