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Monday, 16 March 2015

Portes on Troubled Families

Jonathan Portes also has a good piece on the DforCLG's attempt to build a tower of bullshit out of some fantasy numbers. So when are they going to be renamed the Ministry of Truth?
Posted by Colin at 05:26

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