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20 Mar 2014:
Justine Tunney, a Google software engineer, is demanding that the tech industry take over the US government. By Alex Hern
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24 Feb 2014: Emma Howard: The aim of a petition is to get something done, yet Directgov is rarely more than a farce. It's better to use independent sites
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20 Dec 2013:
An e-petition to Amazon's Jeff Bezos has received more than 40,000 signatories in two days. By Siraj Datoo
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10 May 2013:
Zoe Williams: Twitter can turn celebrities into a weapons-grade Esther Rantzen
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25 Oct 2012:
Commons debate, following 150,000-strong e-petition, strikes blow at government plan to slaughter badgers
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24 Aug 2012:
E-petition signed by more than 100,000 people likely to trigger parliamentary debate on decision to award route to FirstGroup
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24 Aug 2012:
Coalition big hitters join in demand for Parliament to consider the issue, as Lib Dem president Tim Farron says that it tops his constituents' concerns
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14 May 2012: Website that teenager's mother used to bring his case to world attention says it has 'structure of a business but non-profit ethos'
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8 May 2012:
There weren't that many names on Workington's petition for Queen Victoria's great bash. But organisers glued together enough sheets of paper to find a place in history
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14 Feb 2012:
Drop the bill campaign gathers 1,000 signatures an hour and gets support from Stephen Fry, Rio Ferdinand and Jamie Oliver
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23 Jan 2012: Aseem Malhotra: Andrew Lansley is leading us to an Americanised system of privatised care with no accountability. We will all be worse off
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20 Nov 2011: Letters: The reputation of British democracy will only be further damaged by refusing to address the concerns of almost 141,000 people
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Audio
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17 Nov 2011:
Zoe Williams, Michael White and Anne Perkins discuss the declining appeal of the Conservatives to women; plus the future of the EU and the effectiveness of e-petitions
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17 Nov 2011:
Editorial: E-petitions, meant to be a force for good that reconnected people and politics and helped to restore public confidence, may end up doing exactly the opposite
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16 Nov 2011:
Natascha Engel: The public has been led to believe that with enough signatories, petitions would get results. Unfortunately that's just not possible
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