The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
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Pomposity and smugness set to stay
A Week in Politics with Paddy McGuffin
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
SOME things never cease to amaze your humble scribe, mainly the depths of crass self-promotion and smugness that our politicians and so-called celebrities will sink to.
Just when you think they must have reached the pinnacle of bloated self-importance and pomposity, they raise the stakes even higher — normally in the name of “charidee.”
The current example is the frankly pathetic “ice-bucket challenge” whereby the great and not-so-good nominate one another to film themselves dunk a pail of freezing water over their heads with “hilarious” consequences.
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