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Reading is the best regeneration policy

Right you lot: be quiet at the back. Let me clarify. Before some dull object asks me whether the above heading means that Reading is better than Swindon I mean ‘reading’ with a small r. Bill Clinton famously said ‘the best welfare policy is a job’. And so it is. My proposition today is this: reading is the best regeneration policy. Read more »

Tough lessons in Welsh poverty

Ynysybwl Valley, Glyncoch. Areopagus photo

Luckily the Great Regenerator in the Sky looks after me and source material came through my post today. The spring edition of Agenda, the excellent journal of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, has a special section on child poverty. It makes grim and inspirational reading.

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