Category Archives: Welfare

Cuts to care cannot be justified

Anybody who witnessed last night’s Panorama will be rightly horrified by the abuses suffered by some of our most vulnerable citizens. The dire state of care homes has been a problem for far longer than this government has been in … Continue reading

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Two very different visions of community

It is enchanting and enticing rhetoric: the Con-Dem government wants “to put more power and opportunity into the people’s hands.” This is the opening line of the cabinet office’s Big Society statement. Individualism was what Thatcher was all about – … Continue reading

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