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Back to recession: 8 in the morning – July 21st

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * The Treasury select committee have warned that the budget risks sending us back to recession. * Iraq radicalised young British Muslims and increased terror threat says former head of MI5. * Is the Big…

8am

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

* The Treasury select committee have warned that the budget risks sending us back to recession.

* Iraq radicalised young British Muslims and increased terror threat says former head of MI5.

* Is the Big Society a cover for cuts?

* “Grave mistake” – as Lansley considers his own “death tax”, he must be regretting those election posters….

* Mark Steel on the next phase of New Labour – celebrity.

* Will Straw has attempted the difficult task of modelling the leadership contest to predict a winner.

* Sunder Katwala says if Straw is right, then the tactic for non-Miliband candidates must be “first, catch your Miliband”.

* And Quentin Letts accuses Ed Balls of bawling “hardline Socialism”, so he must be doing something right…