Via Child stabbings almost double in five years – Telegraph: Youngsters aged under 18 needing hospital treatment for wounds from a knife or sharp object have leapt up by 83 per cent since 2003, NHS figures show. There has also been a sharp rise in the number of children needing […]
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IDS: “Broken Britain can be fixed by its army of social entrepreneurs”
Broken Britain cannot be rebuilt by the state, but can be fixed by an army of social entrepreneurs, grass-root charities and focus on voluntary organisation As this deep-rooted recession hits Britain’s families, businesses and you, our charities, I am more certain than ever that it is the voluntary sector, not […]
Read MoreCCF Seminar: knife and gun crime
Updated Tonight, I heard some remarkable and shocking accounts of knife and gun crime in Britain and what is to be done about it. I’ll not repeat the accounts of the crimes themselves: some are too grotesque to publish here. And that is part of the problem. Some young people […]
Read MoreMPs’ expenses: Lynne Jones claimed £1,000 for wallpaper – Telegraph
When I read the following, I think of all those individuals and families in modestly- and low-paid jobs, who still pay tax, and I get really quite angry. Perhaps it is due to my ordinary upbringing and my personal knowledge of family and family friends who are not well-off, but […]
Read MoreNew to the Conservative candidate list?
As David Cameron throws open the list to more candidates from outside the political mainstream, I personally recommend these five books from my reading list plus some first-class think tanks. Five books See the links in the sidebar for more book recommendations. Tansey and Jackson, “Politics: The Basics”, because you […]
Read MoreMPs’ pay in context
The Institute for Fiscal Studies runs a utility — Where do you fit in? — which allows you to enter your pay and council tax so that you can see how you fare in relation to the rest of the population. I entered annual pay of £65,000 and council tax […]
Read MoreThe Centre for Social Justice – Knife and gun crime
A moving article from Philippa Stroud at the Centre for Social Justice, laying out the root causes of social breakdown and explaining the possibilities for reversal: Society will always have a criminal element – those for whom it doesn’t matter what you do, they will decide to be aggressive and […]
Read MoreCSJ — “Locked Up Potential”
From the preface to “Locked Up Potential”, another first-class report from the Centre For Social Justice.: Even when someone is sent to prison, the government fails in its mission to reduce crime because of the spectacular failure of prisons to rehabilitate offenders – work that should be the heartbeat of the […]
Read MoreDavid Cameron: “It is not enough for Labour to lose this election”
David Cameron lays out the Conservatives’ radical ideas for giving people the power and responsibility to help themselves and one another: That’s what we mean by the post-bureaucratic age: the satisfying clunk-click of political philosophy matching contemporary reality to produce a genuinely historic shift in how we organise our affairs. […]
Read More“QE” via Stephanie Flanders’ Stephanomics
Via BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Stephanie Flanders’ Stephanomics: Later today, all the signs are that the MPC will release a statement saying that they have authorised the Bank of England to start buying government and corporate securities on its behalf – paid for with money it has created […]
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