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The Alzheimer's Society Conference 2010
The atmosphere here is electric, at the University of Warwick for our Society’s conference this year. Prof Clive Ballard, Director of Research for the Alzheimer’s Society, introduced a set of superb...
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Nat Wei's 'Big Society'– badly received and ill conceived, but only so far
I really think, that with all the goodwill I can possibly muster for Lord Wei’s ‘Big Society’, politically it has been badly received. More crucially, academically, it is poorly conceived. The Big...
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The illusion of choice
An ongoing onslaught by David Cameron has been that the state became too big through Labour. Yesterday, somebody remarked on Twitter, “BREAKING NEWS: Cameron to replace top-down bodies with top-down...
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Cameron's Big Society is nearly dead.
Laura Kuenssberg tried to trip Ed Miliband with her pathetic little trick of saying that Labour had no plans about deficit reduction. Her message is simply a disgusting lie. Labour said it would not...
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Is this where the Big Society came from?
The explanation that the Big Society was an altruistic exercise to help the disadvantaged was clearly a non-starter from the beginning. There has historically been a lack of clear account...
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Whose turn is it for us to alienate now?
One of my latest memories of the dying Thatcher government in 1990 was how it seemed that they were in office but not in power, and how they were just picking off sectors of society to alienate one by...
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