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BLINKERED bureaucrats and clueless ministers at the Department for Work and Pensions are refusing to take the Morning Star while buying nearly 100 other newspapers and magazines.
Work and Pensions Minister Mark Harper confirmed in a parliamentary answer that the people's paper is still excluded from a long list of publications regularly purchased by his department.
Despite the Star’s huge coverage of welfare and pensions issues, the department is snubbing the Star.
But it does buy US magazines Time and Newsweek, satirical magazine Private Eye and also the comic-cuts Daily Star.
Ten national dailies are included among the department’s regular subscriptions — all except the Morning Star.
A DWP press office spokesman said: “I do get stuff from the Morning Star via the internet. It shows what a good website you have.”
He added: “We ensure that we have a broad range of newspapers and journals available within the department, as well as taking advantage of news alerts and newspaper websites to keep abreast of the latest welfare and pension developments.”
