Careless talk costs the chance to fix society

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We want, Gordon Brown said yesterday, to punish and prevent. Note the order in which those words appear - when he entered No 10 Mr Brown was hoping to prevent, not punish. Young people were to be championed not chastised, heralded not harangued. Fear would be replaced with hope, writes Alice Miles in The Times

 

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