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Editors' picks

Julian Glover: The Conservatives have risked fighting this election on an idea: that the state is the obstacle not the originator of good society

Renard Sexton: The Tories have lost votes by trying to create a 'non-nasty' conservatism without first pulling together the right wing

Aditya Chakrabortty: The political pundits are out in force – but should we set much store by their predictions? Probably not

Lesley Riddoch: We find ourselves excluded from the debate for seeming too dangerous – or else written off as an SNP fiefdom

More election coverage from Cif at the polls

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Steven Hepburn: In making my decision to become a monk, I've tried to answer the question many of you will now put: what good will it do?

South Shields: a tale of two towns

Video: In this solid Labour seat, John Harris puts the concerns of a disillusioned voter to the local MP, foreign secretary David Miliband
More from John Harris's election tour of Britain

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