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Did you read with Tim Montgomery?

Welcome to the latest edition of the Times Opinion

podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery, editor of the Times Opinion Pages, and this week I'm joined by two

regular Times columnist Matthew Paris and Alice Thompson, and also first time for this

podcast, our business editor Ian King.

I found as I get older I'm not feeling more mellow about the class system.

I think it's poison and the older I get the more poisonous I see that it is

and I think it's unfair on most of my countrymen. That's why I wrote what I did about breaking down

the walls of private education.

My column was really as much about class as it was about education.

Cutting benefits for families if they have more than two children is the wrong policy for the right reasons.

Yes, we need to cut the benefit bill.

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