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Class struggle that is failing our children

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From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20070117
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Bernard Ingham

LEO Tolstoy had a word, or words, for it. In the ponderous style of his time, he wrote: "I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."

One of the simplest and obvious truths now confronting the nation - and there are a lot of them - is that ...

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