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Sunday, 16 July 2017

UK Tuition Fees U-Turn? "Writing off student debts is an ambition, not a promise, says McDonnell" – video


From The Guardian (video)

John McDonnell insists Jeremy Corbyn's election pledge to wipe student debt 'was not a promise', Telegraph

McDonnell says Labour will 'try to' write off £100bn in student debt as well as abolishing tuition fees, MailOnline

Not possible t keep promise, Guido Fawkes










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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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