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• Theatrics, hatred and Linda McMahon: how pro wrestling explains Donald Trump

  24-11-2024 17:00
  
  The ex-WWE CEO and likely incoming education secretary doesn’t seem like a threat. That’s what makes her oneDespite her background in professional wrestling, Linda McMahon is not known for bombast. Indeed, she’s terrible at it: in the many years during which the former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO would make occasional appearances in her company’s programming as a version of herself, she was always derided by fans for her lack of charisma and wobbly speaking voice.Th
  
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• From Sure Start to youth centres, cutting children’s services is a false economy | Torsten Bell

  24-11-2024 10:00
  
  Research reveals that Tessa Jowell’s programme not only helped early years children but went on to reduce youth crimeOn 22 February 2019, I spoke at a conference in memory of a good friend, Tessa Jowell. The event was about her legacy, marking 20 years since the first Sure Start programmes, which she’d driven as public health minister.Sure Start provided support for children under five, and was expanded through the 2000s before being all but abolished after 2010. By 2019, the ev
  
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