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If the government wants to end public sector monopolies, it can't rule out ...
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[Telegraph.co.uk (blog)] - James Purnell has made the case several times. He wrote in the Guardian: “if allowing state schools to be run by profit-making companies encourages equality of capability, we will have to allow it.” And for profit-schools are common in
In this week's New Statesman: the offshore City
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[New Statesman (blog)] - Also this week, Mehdi Hasan asks if Michael Gove's serial gaffes threaten his place in the cabinet, James Purnell explains why the west is losing the battle for Arab hearts and minds, and Alex Preston considers AOL's takeover of the Huffington Post and
Guardian: How Cameron fell out of love with his citizen organisers
[The Guardian] - At the same time as they were an inspiration to Cameron's one big election idea, ex-cabinet minister James Purnell looked to it as a model for a new kind of politics as it became evident that an increasing number of policy issues – health, education
At last, a radical reform to put paid to the benefits trap
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[This is London] - It started with work programmes for the young, moved on to lone parents, and then, under James Purnell as Secretary of State, declared that in future everyone but the most disabled and full-time carers should expect to find some sort of work.
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