The government has been very clear in its vision that a smaller state is needed to liberate society. But how should local government adapt in order to interact with the Big Society?
Mervyn King, independent public servant, explains and apologises in public. The governor of the Bank of England's address to the UK's Trades Union Congress. Manchester, Wednesday 15 September 2010
The UK's coalition government should come clean: the cuts are about much more than deficit reduction. The project to reform the state is an important one that cannot be built on the pretense of "There is no alternative"
The "Big Society" idea is a phony PR invention dreamt up by people with little experience in civil society. Government cuts will destroy the culture of volunteering that Labour helped create.
Can the underdog snatch the crown with a last minute surge? Will the second preferences swing it? With only a few days left of voting the country awaits with baited breath the outcome of....
How will the left respond to the clear challenge of the Conservatives' Big Society project? Niki Seth Smith is asking the leading people and institutions on the left how they view the idea, as part of OK's debate on the Challenge of the Big Society. Neal Lawson, chair of Compass, furthers the disc
There was a fascinating response from former Labour minister Stephen Timms MP at the weekend to a speech made by Baroness Warsi last week criticising Labour in Government for undermining “the positive power of faith” and suggesting that the Coalition government would "do God"
Ed Miliband, one of the frontrunners for the Labour leadership, answers questions on political reform, civil liberty and the English Question.
I've just got back from a superlative evening of entertainment and political discussion at the Cut's Won't Work benefit gig at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club.
How will the left respond to the clear challenge of the Conservatives' Big Society idea? Niki Seth Smith talks to leading people and institutions on the left to ask them how they see it, beginning with Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society who blogs at Next Left.
OurKingdom launches an investigation into the challenges of the Big Society.
Whatever your views on the Conservatives' Big Society idea for the UK, it seems reasonable to ask what our political leaders are doing to help realise an idea they are so keen to promote. That is what a recent survey of MPs aims to do – but the approach isn’t free from controversy
