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Tag Archives: Big Society
A century so far: will the need for International Women’s Day ever be past?
Today is the one hundredth International Women’s Day. Whilst I can’t speak for the first half of the past century, I recall fairly clearly most of the second half. And strangely – given that my early years were of necessity geographically … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, Big Society, economy, feminist, herstory, small state
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Whoever heard of double devolution? ‘Big Society’ sounds better (but isn’t)
You may remember ‘double devolution’; but if you do it’s probably because you are a politically progressive activist. Double devolution was the name given when Labour was in power by then Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, and her ministerial colleague Andrew … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Adonis, Big Society, David Cameron, DE-governance, Hazel Blears, Labour, localism, poverty
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In 1981 the Gang of Four launched a new UK liberal party to ‘heal divisions’…
Will we soon see big MP defections from the LibDems to Labour, in time to prevent wholesale destruction of the UK’s public services? Just about thirty years ago on 26 March 1981 the so-called Gang of Four launched a new British political … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, Big Society, David Owen, Gang of Four, Labour, Liverpool, Nat Wei, political defections, welfare state
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Forget ‘Big Society’; it’s really ‘Binning Services’ as Tories slash and burn
YouGov today reports that the majority of Brits are baffled by the Big Society posturing of the Tory-led Coalition. Sure, ideas around localism have been on the agenda for some while; but the Tories’ version conveniently omits to say how localism … Continue reading
Incompetent Conservative Government… or de-governance?
Michael Tomasky of The Guardian, in a recent article entitled ‘Good at theatre, dreadful at governing’, quoted the American scholar Alan Wolfe’s view of conservative (e.g. Republican) politicians: Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Society, communities, Conservative, David Cameron, DE-governance, George Osborne, government, incompetence, Labour, Liberal Democrat, NHS, Nick Clegg, philosophy, small state, social class
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A ‘new culture’ of giving – but what dignity in receiving?
We learn today (29 December 2010) that cash machines are to be one of the delivery points for the Government’s ‘new culture of giving‘. Apparently 8% of the UK population currently ‘gives’ 47% of the cash (wouldn’t it be good … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Society, charity, culture, donors, nudge, poverty, recipients, small state, Victorian
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Local government in all its ‘former glory’…?
Local Government Minister Grant Shapps‘ letter in The Guardian today (17 December 2010) refers to the Government’s Localism Bill as a vehicle which ‘will restore local government to its former glory’, and thereby deliver the Big Society. But what sort … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Society, feminist, Grant Shapps, hegemony, localism, resourcing
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