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Proper localism or proper centralism: a house divided cannot stand

Kristian Niemietz

17 June 2013

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Apparently unaware of Ed Miliband’s recent announcements that a Labour government would cut the Housing Benefit bill by building more homes, shadow community secretary Hilary Benn...

The planning reform that wasn’t: the coalition surrenders to the NIMBYs

Kristian Niemietz

10 April 2012

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Every government retreats on some issue or other eventually, realising that the political cost outweighs the benefit. But for this coalition, retreat has become a way of life. Whether it is on the...

The Big Society and big government must not be mixed up

Kristian Niemietz

11 July 2011

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Several authors of this blog have welcomed the idea of the ‘Big Society’, as long as it stands for an orderly retreat of the state from some social functions to make way for autonomous...

Fiscal autonomy is the key to localism

David Cowan

31 May 2011

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Local government is arguably one of the fundamental institutions of a free society. It ensures that local people have a significant degree of control over how the state acts in their community. Yet...

Government cannot build the Big Society

Ruth Porter

19 July 2010

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Liberalism, empowerment, responsibility, redistributing power so that people in their everyday lives don’t turn to officials or central government for help, but instead help themselves and...

Old socialist + Red Tory = so what?

Philip Booth

31 March 2010

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On Newsnight last night there was a long feature by Paul Mason with comment by Phillip Blond about so-called new forms of capitalism. The piece consisted of Paul Mason going round various businesses...

Progressive conservatism – or how to combine the worst bits of two worldviews

Kristian Niemietz

15 May 2009

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Understatement is perhaps not Phillip Blond’s forte. The director of the “progressive conservatism” project aims at nothing less than ushering in a new era in British post-war...

Cameron’s “post-bureaucratic age”

Terry Arthur

17 April 2009

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In his recent article in The Spectator, David Cameron tells us that “the public must be given a core reason to vote not just against Labour but for the Conservative Party.” He goes on to...

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