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• Rick Santorum says supreme court's gay marriage decision not 'final word'

  31-05-2015 20:40
  
  Republican presidential candidate calls on Congress, the president and citizens to fight back ‘when the supreme court gets it wrong’ Related: Rick Santorum heralds role as 'blue collar conservative' in Iowa The Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said on Sunday the supreme court would not “have the final word” on same-sex marriage in the US, saying that instead it would be “important for Congress and the president, frankly, to push back when the supreme court gets it wrong�
  
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• Rick Santorum says supreme court gay marriage decision is not the 'final word'

  31-05-2015 20:40
  
  Republican presidential candidate calls on Congress, the president and citizens to fight back ‘when the supreme court gets it wrong’ Related: Rick Santorum heralds role as 'blue collar conservative' in Iowa The Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said on Sunday the supreme court would not “have the final word” on same-sex marriage in the US, saying that instead it would be “important for Congress and the president, frankly, to push back when the supreme court gets it wrong�
  
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• Let’s make life harder for UK’s pimps and sex traffickers | Letter from Alan Caton

  31-05-2015 20:11
  
  On Monday 1 June it becomes a crime to pay for sex in Northern Ireland, but legal to sell it. The rationale? Prostitution is violence against women and a barrier to gender equality – so end the demand, but don’t punish the victims. I agree. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the minority of men who feel entitled to sexually exploit vulnerable women. In 2006 I led Ipswich’s policing response to the tragic murders of five women by a sex buyer. We cracked down on kerb crawlers, diverte
  
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• Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories – stories of a devil’s advocate

  31-05-2015 12:00
  
  Thomas Grant’s life of the celebrated QC Jeremy Hutchinson shows how, from Profumo to Howard Marks, he loved to skewer hypocrisy and defend roguesI was prepared, I admit, to dislike Jeremy Hutchinson on principle. Here is a man whose life has been an exercise in clannish, well-connected endogamy. His mother was a Strachey, so as a child he was dandled by the grandees of the Bloomsbury group. At Oxford he fell in love with a Bonham Carter, while his sister sagely married a Rothschild. Hutchinso
  
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