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What the Olympics tell us about inequality

On the day I learned that Eton Dorney isn’t a posh pudding, Lord Moynihan (chair of the British Olympics Association) drew attention to the fact that 50% of UK medallists at the Beijing Olympics were privately educated. This wasn’t a surprise (unlike my pudding disappointment) but sometimes it takes someone stating the obvious to remind us it’s not acceptable.

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Creating a 21st century commons

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Work Programme: early signs of progress?

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Community infrastructure bonds: a solution for challenging times?

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Institutional muck makes for cloudy waters

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Exposing the lie

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A fix for youth unemployment you can bank on?

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Council supply chains can help small business

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Playing into the populists’ hands

Those of us opposed to the coalition’s spending cuts in the poorest parts of the country need to be careful about the language we use when describing their impact.