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Mediawatch: Picking on nine year olds can only backfire

To me, the news story of the week is not the drip drip drip ramifications of austerity which will echo louder and louder over the next few years. It is not this week’s increases in homelessness and council tax arrears, nor the latest Treasury bombshell that they might need a billion quid back from local government this year to build up a national contingency pot. It is not even the accusations that ministers have played fast and loose with statistics of various kinds (and I love statistics).

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