Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Why the benefit cap is wrong | France's state-sanctioned discrimination | Miliband and the Blairites: the war continues

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Ten must-read blogs

  1. Giving space to Andrew Wakefield on MMR isn't balance, it's lunacy
    The Independent should not have run the discredited doctor's claims on its front page today.
    By Martin Robbins

  2. Five reasons why the benefit cap is wrong
    The £26,000 cap, which is introduced in four London boroughs today, will raise child poverty, increase homelessness and cost more than it saves.
    By George Eaton

  3. Miliband and the Blairites have more in common than they suggest
    A leader who has explicitly "turned the page on New Labour" makes many of the same compromises and electoral calculations as the former prime minister and his allies.
    By Rafael Behr

  4. No blacks or Arabs" for Israeli PM's visit: the latest example of French state-sanctioned discrimination
    EHollande's silence on the alleged discrimination against black and Arab employees is indicative of the president's recent decision to chase popularity by playing to the centre-right.
    By Myriam Francois-Cerrah

  5. Sir Colin Davis: a conductor without compare
    He gave us all a good time. By Caroline Crampton

  6. Thatcher and North Sea oil - a failure to invest in Britain's future
    Had Thatcher been a truly visionary politician, she would have established a wealth fund for the oil windfall, not squandered it on tax cuts and current spending.
    By Guy Lodge

  7. Granta's Best Young British Novelists - who are they?
    Bios for the twenty listed writers. By Philip Maughan

  8. Kobo fights Amazon with the one thing it has: friends
    The Aura HD is a great bit of hardware, but that's not where the battle of ereaders is being fought. By Alex Hern

  9. Columnists now are like street performers - collecting coins in a hat and dodging angry racists
    By 70, will I be screeching about immigrants from an enormous throne made of my clippings? By Laurie Penny

  10. The benefit cap will only succeed in harming the weakest and most vulnerable
    Instead of the social vivisection currently taking place, lowering the benefits bill requires an agenda that creates jobs, arms people with skills and lowers rents. By David Lammy

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