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June 7th, 2013

Modern Suffragettes, Universal Basic Income and Property Prices: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

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June 7th, 2013

Modern Suffragettes, Universal Basic Income and Property Prices: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

With the centenary of Emily Davison’s death tomorrow, Elizabeth Evans draws a parallel between campaigns for women’s suffrage and campaigns for increasing the number of women MPs at Westminster.

The Latent Existence blog comments on Ed Miliband’s major speech on welfare yesterday, proposing Universal Basic Income as a solution regarding the on-going debates about benefits.

Justin Welby
Archbishop Justin Welby
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Gena Merrett, writing for the LabourList blog, argues that the government’s plan to cut teaching assistants is austerity couched as improvements to student outcomes.

The Economist‘s Free Exchange blog explains how the restrictions on construction is a major contributing factor for the eye-watering prices of London real estate.

Tom Pride reads through the lines of Justin Welby’s speech on gay marriage. He sees it as the Archbishop criticising the government’s plans to undermine miserable marriage as basis for rearing children.

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