Inevitably events like those which occurred yesterday throw up a lot of analysis and comment, most of it guff. To avoid contributing to the guff pandemic which is sweeping Westminster, here is a very brief reflection on the speeches made by the outgoing and incoming Prime Ministers – there was a subtle but important contrast …
Conservatives
No such thing as (Big) Society?
Ben Brogan argues on his blog that Dan Snow’s Dunkirk-esque rescue of a few holiday makers from the French coast is precisely what the Conservative’s plan for a Big Society is all about – citizen activism without the need for State involvement. Notwithstanding the charitable zeal with which Mr Snow launched his flotilla of five …