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BIG SOCIETY IMPLODING
by Daphne Liddle
PRIME MINISTER David Cameron’s ridiculous vision of a “Big Society” is collapsing like a mountain of soap bubbles, as the people he enlisted to try to make it happen have been quitting and complaining that the devastating cuts to services and charities are making it quite impossible.
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Egypt: pressure grows on Mubarak
by our Arab Affairs correspondent
TENS OF THOUSANDS of Egyptian workers downed tools on Wednesday in support of the pro-democracy demonstrators, who are continuing to swell the protest in the heart of Cairo to demand the immediate resignation of hated dictator Hosni Mubarak.
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