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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Guardian readers and James Walsh

Politics live - readers' edition - Tuesday 16 February

PM mental health roundtable meetingPrime Minister David Cameron (4th left) chairs a meeting of business leaders at No 10 Downing Street in London to discuss mental health issues in the work place.
PM mental health roundtable meeting
Prime Minister David Cameron (4th left) chairs a meeting of business leaders at No 10 Downing Street in London to discuss mental health issues in the work place.
Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Thanks for all your comments - we’ll have another readers’ edition up tomorrow morning at 8am GMT.

Wither the boycott? Commenters have been discussing government plans to end “divisive town hall boycotts” via new procurement guidelines. On Guardian opinon, Amnesty International’s Peter Frankental has written in their defence.

A boycott is a very British form of protest. It is action through inaction. Over the decades, they have been used to express distaste in the behaviour of countless governments, regimes, individuals and companies with great effect. The boycott of apartheid South Africa has a sort of folklore status as having contributed to the demise of a violent, racist system. Many a brand or government – from the Burmese junta to Nestlé – has felt the force of pound power over the years.

Commenters below the line have been discussing the fallout to Jeremy Hunt’s decision to impose contracts on junior doctors. One reader has drawn attention to a piece rounding up views from doctors weighing up what to do next.

Andrew is not writing his usual Politics Live blog this week so, as an alternative, here’s Politics Live: readers’ edition. It is intended to be a place where you can catch up with the latest news and find links to good politics blogs and articles on the web.

Please feel free to use this as somewhere you can comment on any of the day’s political stories - just as you do during the daily blog. It would be particularly useful for readers to flag up new material in the comments - breaking news or blogposts or tweets that are worth passing on because someone is going to find them interesting.

All today’s Guardian politics stories are here.

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