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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This Monday, David Cameron announced that the fight against extremism was ‘the struggle of our generation’. Cameron’s assault on ‘extremism’ reminds me of George W. Bush’s war on ‘terror’. Both served the purpose of giving a rather vacuous head of a conservative government a reason to exist. Both used large and dubious abstractions to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[People use the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ in different ways. For me, to be on the left is, loosely, to think that many of the inequalities we live with are both damaging and unnecessary. For those on the left, &#8216;equality of opportunity&#8217; as the right understands it is not enough: inequalities due to luck, ability [&#8230;]]]></description>
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