Helpful post on Conservative Home about the Prime Minister by Paul Goodman, on the occasion of Cameron's first six months
On the surface, there's David Cameron, the Big Society, and his apparent desire to turn Britain into a kind of giant Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. Below it, there's George Osborne, reining back spending and plotting Labour's demise.
Anthony is the honorary president of openDemocracy. He was its founding editor-in-chief (2001-7), the co-director of The Convention on Modern Liberty (2009) and the first director of Charter 88 (1988-95). His most recent books are ‘The Lure of Greatness: England's Brexit and America's Trump’ (2017) and ‘Taking Control!: Humanity and America after Trump and the Pandemic’ (2022). He is a trustee of openTrust. His collected articles can be found on Authory and he posts on X at @AnthonyBarnett
