‘I worked for Thatcher and Brown. Here’s what Reeves’ growth plan is missing’
I worked for Gordon Brown as Chancellor and Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister and, for me, two vital…
Big Society
Weak, weak, weak: If it is a fight over character then let’s compare May’s cowardice against stubborn Corbyn
To most voters, the character of the candidates matters more than the policies they offer. Every election in…
Cameron’s Big Society is really Greedy Pig Society, says McCluskey
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) annual congress kicked off yesterday in Liverpool. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady has…
Brooks Newmark’s comments aren’t just patronising, they’re an attack on charities
The new Minister for Civil Society may be surprised by the uproar he’s caused by telling charities to…
Why did the government break its own rules to fund David Cameron’s vanity projects?
The Big Society has long seemed like a joke to many communities across Britain, but now it has…
“Socialists are not concerned solely with material things”
Labour was built on the voluntary tradition: from the trade unions and grassroots socialist groups that founded our…
Big Society ‘invented by Jesus’ claims David Cameron
David Cameron has audaciously claimed that flagship Tory policy idea “the Big Society” is simply a continuation of…
Is Labour’s answer to the “Big Society” the shared society?
The incessant debate of the last week around Margaret Thatcher and her- largely baleful- legacy has perhaps obscured…
The real Big Society
In the late 1980s, I took part in Neil Kinnock’s policy review – ‘Meet the Challenge, Make the…
Today we got a glimpse of why the Conservatives are probably going to lose the next election
If the British economy starts to recover quite vigorously in 2013/14, the Conservatives will have a much better…
