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The blood brothers
George W Bush
Tony Blair
These two men bombed Iraqi children just to keep control of oil
Selection: education for the few, not the many
"Death Of The Comprehensive." So the Daily Mail greeted Blair's plans for education this week. Scrapping the hated 11-plus and introducing comprehensive schools in the 1960s and 1970s led to the biggest ever increase in educational achievement. The system was so successful that even Tory education secretary Margaret Thatcher went along with it.
Magnificent defiance
London's tube network ground to a halt on Monday. Train drivers in the ASLEF union threw up picket lines at depots across the capital, and other workers refused to cross them.
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- Students locked in at universities as system profits
- Asylum seeker granted limited leave to stay but says the fight isn't over
- Handling of the virus has made mental distress worse
- The Tories’ jobs scheme—patching up a failing jobs market
- Anger on the streets after killers of Breonna Taylor not charged for her death
- Sunak gives bosses another bailout while workers still face job and pay cuts
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