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14: David Miliband: The Age of Impunity

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Tragedy of the Tony Gordon Transition

I think that he's always been a egalitarian to his absolute core. If that makes you left-wing, he's left-wing. So does that make you a pragmatist? Yes, I guess it does. But I think that the times today are more polarized. And the structural inequalities that confront modern industrialized societies demand a different response. The things that we did are like the minimum wage, mean that you don't have to do them again. You've got the minimum wage after 100 years of trying, you then build on it. And it's less sexy to build on the minimum wage than it is to introduce it. Renewal. We closed the shutters when we needed

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