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From the archive: David Nutt on drug harms

With the government's proposal to ban khat in the news this week, take a look at the speech Professor David Nutt gave to us in 2009 on how to measure the relative harms of different drugs. It was this speech that...

5 July 2013
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'What is the point of my being?'

Asks life sentence prisoner Jamie Starbuck in a letter to prisoners' newspaper Inside Time.

'Aside from getting into a yearly fight at school with the same boy I’ve only done one violent act and that got me 30 years in prison. When I become eligible for parole I’ll be

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5 July 2013
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Enough to get by

Single people need to earn at least £16,850 a year before tax and couples with two children at least £19,400 each in 2013 for a minimum acceptable living standard, according to the latest minimum income standard report...

3 July 2013