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Rupa Huq Articles

Higher living standards for working families

A better plan for a better future – Five parliamentary candidates present Labour’s five pledges to Britain Freeze energy bills until 2017 and give the regulator the power to cut bills this winter, ban exploitative zero-hours contracts, raise the minimum wage to £8 and...
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The resilience of suburbia

The suburbs have long attracted criticism. In the 1852 novel Basil by Wilkie Collins it is said that anyone taking a trip to suburbia would most likely have taken leave of their senses because ‘its newness and desolateness of appearance revolted me.’ It is likely he...
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Olympics in retrospect

From the political party that gave us the expression ‘watermelon smiles’, during the Olympics we got ‘leftie multicultural crap’ tweeted by Aidan Burley MP – a contrary opinion of the praised-to-the-rooftops opening ceremony. From the same end of the political...
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Meanwhile from the town hall…

As all the political shows wind up for the recess, the school term is out for the hols and political hacks wind down until September, the municipal year ends too. 2010 – 11 is well and truly over. Its passing marks not only the coalition’s first year in office but 12...
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