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<a href="http://b-chu.livejournal.com/1364.html">Ben Chu: Sentimental brutality</a>

Monday 01 December 2008 14:08 GMT
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Martin Narey, the head of Barnado's was accused of bad taste by some last week for suggesting that had Baby P lived he might well have grown up to become one of the "feral" youths the populist press loves to hate. I think it was a point well worth making.

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