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Charities: Widening the legal framework
Mark Pawlowski asks whether political activities should be charitable ‘Should not the line be drawn between objects which are essentially political and objects which are of general social significance?’Charities are becoming more political in character and less concerned with symptomatic relief. The concept of charity today is one of public campaigning, lobbying and self-promotion. But …
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