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The self-rewarding rich fear any notion of radical change in the way that politics, government and economics works, but this is our only lifeline, warns ALAN SIMPSON
Damage inside Parks Primary School in Leicester which has been affected with sub standard reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac).

THE roof is falling in on the British economy. For over 150 schools in England this is a literal as well as a figurative truth.

On the eve of the autumn term, schools were notified they couldn’t reopen because defective concrete in their roofs put them at risk of imminent collapse.

They were thrown into a frantic replanning of where and how teaching might take place. Parents hadn’t a clue what this might mean.

A catalogue of collapse

Laughing at the Luftwaffe?

Inverting obligations

The power of the corporate pound

Fracturing realities

Beyond orthodoxy

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