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Policing Improvement Agency: a botched execution
Editorial: Despite vowing to axe the agency, the coalition may realise that this is a case of a ludicrous label stuck to an important body -
Defence cuts: imperial echoes
Editorial: Even with cuts of 8% in the next four years Britain will still be dining at the top table of weaponry -
Country diary: Nant yr Arian, Aberystwyth
John Gilbey takes the scenic route in Aberystwyth -
Corrections and clarifications
Frank Field MP | Letters | Tesco in Japan | John Morgan | Edinburgh international book festival 2012 | BP Moscow | Sweetcorn fritters -
In praise of … the Ned Kelly legend
Editorial: The identification of the Australian outlaw's skeleton merely adds to the mystery of what his true aims were
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Public service choice: cuts or ethics?
Letters: Economic value – efficiency, profitability, reduced social spending – is erasing ethical values: effectiveness, social purpose and the meeting of needs -
Great debate on Britain's housing crisis
Letters: The amount of money the social landlords were initially able to pay for more than 180 homes was drastically cut as they in turn had their funding cut
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Eight legs not good
Letters: Teacup, dogs, pencil and I left my chair in a flurry of paper and hot liquid as I turned to that page -
Innovation is alive and thriving in UK
Letters: The reason why the UK public biotech market is shrinking is a simple one. Successful early-stage biotech companies are being increasingly bought directly by big pharmaceutical companies
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It's pure prejudice to dismiss apprenticeships in favour of degrees
Response: Young people need better guidance to realise the true value of good work-based training, says Alison Kaye -
Longest strike ever
Letters: Schoolchildren 'went on strike' in 1914 to support their teachers, Tom and Kitty Higdon, sacked by the rural squirearchy for organising agricultural workers
