Today Philip Blond and ResPublica think tank called on the government to create a national network of foodbanks. The idea of food banks is a very good one, a service that provides food to those individuals in desperate need who might have to wait X amount of days before they can be provided any service from the… [Read more…]
June 10, 2010
I have heard that famous quote “there is no such thing as society” many times but It was only yesterday that I read it in full context (here it is): They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.… [Read more…]
May 3, 2010
I have been thinking about the big society for a while, as I’m sure many people have been who have been trying to figure out exactly what it is suppose to be. What I have been considering is if it is actually better to call it the “active community” as that seams to be the… [Read more…]
April 24, 2010
Is it just me but doesn’t the whole “big society” rhetoric seam very utopian? Many of the aspects seam to involved statements that seam to suggest that once X happens then it will lead to Z happening (and this will be achieved by reducing the state). Take crime and alcoholism. Part of the Big society… [Read more…]
April 14, 2010
isn’t it funny that when our government debt is at its highest since the second world war and as we are just come out of the worse recessison since the second world war we find a conservative government that suddenly reveals that actually everything will be better if they don’t have to pay for it… [Read more…]
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