£35bn debts to avoid being seen to be working class

It all seems rather silly now, but it was not so long ago that many on the liberal left fully expected the Gordon Brown coronation to deliver a significant change of political direction rather than a mere, though welcome, change of style.

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In 2007, 27 teenagers were murdered in London, a record. 2008 is well on course to beat that: just over a third of the way through the year, 13 teenagers have been killed already, with the summer still to come.What is responsible for this upsurge? Why are children killing each other—and others – in these kind of numbers? (more…)

On a night where Labour were deservedly massacred across the whole country, how were a bunch of lacklustre candidates able to win two out of three against the IWCA in Oxford? (more…)

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