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Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: The Spoils

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See inside the Summer heat edition

Jeremy Hunt’s budget speech did not reveal what will remain of our public services. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty

The Tory press’s winter fuel handout hypocrisy

A payment to all OAPs was unjustified and unsustainable

Migrants arrive on a boat at La Restinga dock on the island of El Hierro, the most westerly of Spain’s Canary Islands. Photo: Stringer/AFP/Getty

The Canary Islands’ accidental tourists

The islands welcome 14 million holidaymakers a year. Now asylum seekers are frequent visitors, too