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The Office for National Statistics said that at 8.3% the unemployment rate was at its highest since 1996. But economists said there were tentative signs the deterioration in the labour market was slowing, if not reversing. At PMQs Ed Miliband cited the figures and said that the government was "betraying a whole generation of young people". David Cameron said all job losses were a "tragedy". He also claimed that since the election an extra 581,000 jobs had been created in the private sector, compared to 336,
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So much ink and film has been expended in the service of the world’s largest conflagration that it’s a testament to the scale of the endeavor that 70 years later,stories of certain heroes have still gone untold. InThe Liberator,
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To what extent do you think his reactions are connected with this particular war?I think coming home from any war means a huge letdown and a sense of purposelessness: it's like being fired. You no longer have your job. You lose a sense of identity-though it's much more than that. You thought you were fighting on behalf of the people at home,but after months or years of adrenaline and fear and exhaustion,
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