Oliver Duggan
Oliver Duggan has a BA in Politics and Parliamentary Studies from the University of Leeds and an MA in Newspaper Journalism from City University London. He works as a freelance reporter and editorial assistant for The Independent and i with a focus on Home Affairs and politics.
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'Active Choice+' vs 'Default On': how Cameron’s crackdown on internet pornography became a rebranding exercise
15 July 2013 09:02 PM
Government demands firms vocally back its preferred online protection measures
Australian health minister Tanya Plibersek adds fuel to Lynton Crosby row over cigarette packaging
15 July 2013 08:58 PM
Australia’s Health Minister has accused the UK Government of dropping plans to introduce blank cigarette packaging due to pressure from tobacco companies and one of their former lobbyists now working for the Conservatives.
Revealed: Hillary Clinton earns $200,000 from lucrative world of after-dinner speaking
12 July 2013 04:54 PM
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rakes in up to $200,000 (£132,000) a night in the lucrative world of professional speechmaking, according to The New York Times.
‘Vampire' graveyard? Heads placed between legs of decapitated skeletons found in Poland
12 July 2013 03:58 PM
Rearrangement indicates ancient execution rituals designed to ensure the dead do not return to life, say archaeologists
George Osborne will be forced to cut NHS and pension budgets, think tank warns
12 July 2013 12:50 PM
Chancellor George Osborne will be forced to abandon the Government ring fence-around the NHS and pension budgets and further cut public spending if he is to keep pledge not to raise taxes after the 2015 election, a leading think tank has said.
Ireland passes historic legislation to allow 'life saving' abortions
12 July 2013 12:00 PM
Days of fierce protests and long Dail debates plagued the passage of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill
Vince Cable: Government will 'toughen up' after G4S and Serco scandal
12 July 2013 10:12 AM
Business Secretary Vince Cable has said the Coalition will “toughen up” on private contracts after the Government disclosed two major firms had charged the taxpayer to monitor non-existent electronic tags.
Drug amnesty bins at T in the Park over deaths linked to 'Rolex' ecstasy pills
12 July 2013 09:54 AM
Teenager Demi Campbell becomes the seventeenth UK victim of PMA tablets
Government unveils £1bn investment in car of the future
12 July 2013 09:33 AM
10-year Government and industry initiative expected to secure at least 30,000 jobs
Another sizzling weekend in prospect as of 30C heatwave returns
12 July 2013 08:02 AM
But good news is tempered by health alert
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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