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• White Americans losing majority in under-5 age group, Census says

  
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  For the first time, Americas racial and ethnic minorities now make up about half of the under-5 age group, the government said Thursday. Its a historic shift that shows how young people are at the forefront of sweeping changes by race and class. The new census estimates, a snapshot of the U.S. population as of July ...
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• Don’t accept multiple Facebook Friend Requests from your friends

  
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  You have a new Facebook Friend request from someone that you are pretty sure you are already friends with on Facebook. Strange but you click on Accept Friend thinking perhaps its just an update. You think nothing of it. Days later you start getting request for money from your friend along with a soppy sad story. You ...
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• Why I could do without Michael Goves declaration of love | Diane Abbott

  
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  Im no fan of the unpopular education secretary. But I stand by my belief that working-class children need academic rigour It may be that my political career does not survive the toe-curling announcement by the education secretary Michael Gove that he is "in love" with me because of my support for the principle of ...
  1 week ago

• Why I could do without Michael Goves declaration of love | Diane Abbott

  
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  Im no fan of the unpopular education secretary. But I stand by my belief that working-class children need academic rigour It may be that my political career does not survive the toe-curling announcement by the education secretary Michael Gove that he is "in love" with me because of my support for the principle of ...
  1 week ago

• This cosy Surrey-Oxbridge link exposes Britains geographical apartheid | Alex Niven

  
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  University data confounds the post-Thatcher myth of progress – in fact the UKs social and economic divisions are growing wider The news that Surrey contained almost as many successful Oxbridge applicants last year as Wales and the north-east of England combined is as predictable as it is saddening. Those of us ...
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• This cosy Surrey-Oxbridge link exposes Britains geographical apartheid | Alex Niven

  
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  University data confounds the post-Thatcher myth of progress – in fact the UKs social and economic divisions are growing wider The news that Surrey contained almost as many successful Oxbridge applicants last year as Wales and the north-east of England combined is as predictable as it is saddening. Those of us ...
  1 week ago

• Nick Clegg’s Letter from the Leader: ‘Opening Doors’ so that every young person deserves a great start in life

  
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  Nick Clegg has made social mobility — the aim that everyone should be able to make of their lives what they want regardless of where they come from — his driving mission as Deputy Prime Minister. It’s a big aim and one he knows will be difficult to achieve. His latest attempt to progress it is the Opening Doors ...
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• How much should you help your child get a good start in life?

  
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  Social mobility tsar James Caan has been criticised for helping his daughters get on. Lin Jenkins asks five families where the assistance stops The governments new social mobility tsar, James Caan, was accused of hypocrisy last week when the former Dragons Den star said parents should leave their children to make ...
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• With all these celebrity tsars, we need an October revolution | Marina Hyde

  
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  James Caan, Mary Portas, Alan Sugar, Carol Vorderman: history offers us a template for dealing with this swollen and underachieving dynasty Much as Ive enjoyed living through the period of celebrity tsars, might I put out an urgent call for some celebrity bolsheviks? The revolutionary moment is suggested by this ...
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• With all these celebrity tsars, we need an October revolution | Marina Hyde

  
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  James Caan, Mary Portas, Alan Sugar, Carol Vorderman: history offers us a template for dealing with this swollen and underachieving dynasty Much as Ive enjoyed living through the period of celebrity tsars, might I put out an urgent call for some celebrity bolsheviks? The revolutionary moment is suggested by this ...
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• A touch of class: Grayson Perrys tapestries – in pictures

  
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  Grayson Perry walks us through the taste tribes of Great Britain, highlighting the different things we choose to eat, wear, read and drive in a morality tale inspired by Hogarths A Rakes Progress        
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• Nick Clegg launches Opening Doors Awards

  
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  Nick Clegg has long championed improving life chances for those from disadvantaged backgrounds. As he said on this morning’s Call Clegg: My dad helped me. I was very lucky. But is shouldn’t be all about luck. That’s what we need to address. He said that bright kids from poorer backgrounds were being ...
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• Nick Clegg tells parents not to deny instinct to assist their childrens careers

  
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  Talent of so many young is wasted if parents and businesses keep doors shut, says deputy PM after nepotism claims Nick Clegg said on Wednesday that people should not be sanctimonious about helping their childrens careers, as his new social mobility tsar was embroiled in a row over alleged nepotism. The entrepreneur ...
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• Nick Clegg tells parents not to deny instinct to assist their childrens careers

  
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  Talent of so many young is wasted if parents and businesses keep doors shut, says deputy PM after nepotism claims Nick Clegg said on Wednesday that people should not be sanctimonious about helping their childrens careers, as his new social mobility tsar was embroiled in a row over alleged nepotism. The entrepreneur ...
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• Should you help your kids onto the career ladder?

  
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  The new social mobility tsar James Caan has stated that parents should avoid helping their children to get jobs. He believes that too many parents are using their influence to help their sons and daughters get work experience at top companies and this is preventing them from standing on their own two feet, as well… ...
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• Me-first parents do the rest of us an injustice | Zoe Williams

  
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  Like James Caan, I want the best for my children. But seeing people in power privileging their own just entrenches inequality My honest advice, if you missed James Caan on the Today programme is to do yourself a favour and leave it that way. The entrepreneur and former Dragons Den panellist was explaining to the ...
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• Me-first parents do the rest of us an injustice | Zoe Williams

  
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  Like James Caan, I want the best for my children. But seeing people in power privileging their own just entrenches inequality My honest advice, if you missed James Caan on the Today programme is to do yourself a favour and leave it that way. The entrepreneur and former Dragons Den panellist was explaining to the ...
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• Policy tsars – do they ever work? | Simon Caulkin

  
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  James Caan has joined the 260 tsars created since 1997. Too many have been window-dressing, appointed on a political whim Nick Cleggs unveiling of James Caan as the governments new "social mobility tsar" today means that UK governments have appointed more than 260 policy tsars since May 1997 . The term, derived ...
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• Policy tsars – do they ever work? | Simon Caulkin

  
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  James Caan has joined the 260 tsars created since 1997. Too many have been window-dressing, appointed on a political whim Nick Cleggs unveiling of James Caan as the governments new "social mobility tsar" today means that UK governments have appointed more than 260 policy tsars since May 1997 . The term, derived ...
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• James Caan: social mobility tsar denies nepotism but employs his daughter

  
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  Entrepreneur appointed by Nick Clegg insists that daughter, Hanah, was subject to standard selection procedures If youre the governments new social mobility tsar and you have spent your first media interview arguing that parents shouldnt give their offspring a helping hand in the workplace, its probably advisable you ...
  2 weeks ago

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