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Reading the Big Society Tea Leaves

Tuesday saw the first fruits of Prime Minister David Cameron’s big election idea, the Big Society, with the launch of a rather modest reprise of some of proposals in the Conservative Manifesto, glammed up with a conversation and photo-op with a group of Britain’s top social entrepreneurs. We are sympathetic to the Big Society because it points towards some of the fundamental changes […]

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Big Society, Big Idea?

If government isn’t the answer to all society’s ills, how can citizens take control and find real solutions to problems as diverse as loneliness and youth crime? Well, the Big Society Network that launched in London on Thursday thinks it has the answer – half public awareness campaign, half social networking site, half thinktank, half old-fashioned mutual society, […]