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class="fly-title">Unemployment in Britain</h1> <article> <h2><a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/21554572" class="package-link">The labour market: Idle hands</a></h2> <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/21554572"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516193454im_/http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/news_package_primary_landscape/20120512_BRP003.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-news_package_primary_landscape" width="412" height="232"/></a> <p> The puzzle of why unemployment is not higher <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/21554572/comments#comments" title="Comments" class="comment-icon"><span>(7)</span></a> </p> </article> <ul class="package-item"><li class="first"><div class=""> <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2012/04/economistipsos-mori-issues-index" class="package-link">The Economist/Ipsos-MORI issues index: Doling it out</a> <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2012/04/economistipsos-mori-issues-index#comments" title="Comments" class="comment-icon"><span>(3)</span></a></div> </li> <li class="even last"><div class=""> <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/21549000" class="package-link">Welfare reforms: Can work, won鈥檛 work</a> <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/21549000/comments#comments" title="Comments" class="comment-icon"><span>(8)</span></a></div> </li> </ul> </section><section class="ec-news-package node node-type-news_package node-published node-teaser"> <h1 class="fly-title">Constitutional reform</h1> <article> <h2><a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/21554517" class="package-link">Bagehot: House repairs</a></h2> <p> Beneath high-flown talk of Lords reform lies a grubby power struggle <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/21554517/comments#comments" title="Comments" class="comment-icon"><span>(1)</span></a> </p> </article> <ul class="package-item"><li class="first"><div class=""> <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/21548956" class="package-link">Electing the Lords: A house divided</a> <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/21548956/comments#comments" title="Comments" class="comment-icon"><span>(39)</span></a></div> </li> <li class="even last"><div class=""> <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/18617926" class="package-link">Constitutional reform: All change</a> <a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/18617926/comments#comments" title="Comments" class="comment-icon"><span>(19)</span></a></div> </li> </ul> </section><section class="ec-news-package node node-type-news_package node-published node-teaser"> <h1 class="fly-title">The coalition</h1> <article> <h2><a href="/web/20120516193454/http://www.economist.com/node/21554515" class="package-link">The Cameron 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