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"To not do so is to choose which crimes to take seriously, and which to sweep under the carpet."
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They did have a bit of history—not one that Urin was ever going to forget or sweep under the carpet.
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But what shocked many was the number of average citizens who rallied behind the protesters, saying they were expressing a righteous fury against immigrants that Germany's politicians have tried to sweep under the carpet.
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We have also seen a darker underbelly, the seething resentment and implicit discrimination occasionally boiling over into outright racism (that dreaded "r-word," so potent and so feared, and so much more convenient to brush off and sweep under the carpet).
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"It's the first case of its kind during Putin's tenure that I can recall which the authorities are not trying to sweep under the carpet," Olga Kryshtanovskaya, a sociologist and former member of Vladimir Putin's United Russia party, told Reuters.
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Instead Mr Blair set out frankly, accurately and crisply the realities and contradictions that today's political leaders prefer to sweep under the carpet, or refer to only opaquely: people did vote on Brexit "without knowledge of the full terms"; its execution will starve other public priorities, like the health service, of government capacity and cash; it will imperil the union.
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Farson joined Associated-Rediffusion, the first British commercial television company, in the mid-1950s. Here he took risks that few television interviewers (certainly not those employed at the then-conservative BBC) would dare to take. In his series Out of Step (1957) and People in Trouble (1958) – never shown at the same time throughout the ITV network, but much repeated in various regions well into the early 1960s – he dealt with issues of social exclusion and alienation that most of the media at the time preferred to sweep under the carpet. The best remembered editions of these series are the Out of Step programme on nudism (the term "naturism" had yet to become commonplace), which claimed to show the first naked woman on British television, and the People in Trouble programme on mixed marriages (a highly sensitive issue at the time as post-war immigrants tentatively began to integrate into British life).
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