Blair Talks of 'Breakthrough' and 'Reform' -- But What If This Is As Good As Britain Gets?
Spectator, The; London › August 05, 2009
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Well, I think the welfare state proposals in a few weeks' time will be but the major thing I'm also concentrating on in terms of alleviating long-term poverty rather than ameliorating it . . . and I'm going to bring forward proposals which will reform and review the social fund which is the loans, we've got £210 million extra going into budgeting loans from next April, from next April, I'm going to double the disregard for the capital that people have been able to build up so that...
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Blair Talks of 'Breakthrough' and 'Reform' -- But What If This Is As Good As Britain Gets?
Voltaire was a superb polemicist but a cheat in debate. He never laid a finger on the Christian argument which in Candide he mocked as claiming that 'all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds'.
He showed that the world was a dreadful place. In a sparkling and brutal parody he demonstrated that life was cruel and unjust, and that millions o...See the full content of this document
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