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	<title>Platform 10 &#187; Governing</title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about the people</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/08/its-about-the-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betapolitics</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax and Spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But not the people journalists mean.
Matthew d’Ancona, in his Evening Standard column on Monday, trivialised the important and necessary debates over welfare reform into a soap opera style personal battle. The Coalition does not have the luxury of choosing between cuts and reform.  Labour’s legacy of record debt and “broken society” demands that there must be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming the Big Society party</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/08/becoming-the-big-society-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/08/becoming-the-big-society-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betapolitics</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Conservatives have just launched a big recruitment campaign, which includes many policy posts in CCHQ. This is good news. A month ago Tim Montgomerie raised concerns that the Tory Party was not giving enough thought to its own agenda or how the Conservatives will position themselves at the next election. Running a government and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prison works &#8211; just not in every case</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/prison-works-just-not-in-every-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/prison-works-just-not-in-every-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Booth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law and order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making a Difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressive Conservatism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Justice Secretary Ken Clarke’s proposals for penal reform have landed him in hot water with some of the self anointed &#8216;tough on crime&#8217; brigade. In a speech to the Centre for Crime and Justice recently, Clarke challenged conventional wisdom stretching back over two decades. Eschewing the ‘prison works’ rhetoric of one of his predecessors Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can we be the Apple of politics?</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/can-we-be-the-apple-of-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/can-we-be-the-apple-of-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen centric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making a Difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-Bureaucratic Age]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.platform10.org/?p=1250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Saturday Times magazine (link here but it&#8217;s behind the paywall) had a great article about Apple, and how all companies basically want to be the Apple of their industry. Farhad Manjoo also came up with a list of the attributes that make Apple Apple.
He notes that discipline, focus and long-term thinking are key, along with a willingness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oliver and Danny up a tree&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/oliver-and-danny-up-a-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/oliver-and-danny-up-a-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coalition building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making a Difference]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Or something. At Policy Exchange this evening, Danny Alexander looked somewhat non-plussed by Oliver Letwin&#8217;s descriptions of marriage versus friendship and their relationship to the one-party versus coalition government. But overall it was a fascinating insight into the nuts and bolts of how it&#8217;s working.
There are some key structural elements which mean that the coalition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Royal example for progressive Conservatism</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/a-royal-example-for-progressive-conservatism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/a-royal-example-for-progressive-conservatism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, the Queen undertook a week-long homecoming to Canada.  On the 1st of July, she and the Duke of Edinburgh were in the nation’s capital to celebrate Dominion Day, marking 143 years since the enactment of the British North America Act and Canadian Confederation.
Yet the United Kingdom and Canada have more in common than Queen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are some Lib Dems playing into Labour&#8217;s hands?</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/06/are-some-lib-dems-playing-into-labours-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/06/are-some-lib-dems-playing-into-labours-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coalition building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.platform10.org/?p=1210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote about the possibility that having a Coalition government could in fact undermine the ultimate proof that the Conservative party has changed &#8211; in other words, that people would think that the Lib Dems were the ones doing all the good things, and the Tories all the bad things.
Of course, it&#8217;s generally assumed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could the coalition actually set back the modernising cause?</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/06/has-the-coalition-actually-set-back-the-modernising-cause/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/06/has-the-coalition-actually-set-back-the-modernising-cause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.platform10.org/?p=1196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a huge supporter of the Coalition. I think it has enormous potential to achieve great things. I think it should last the full five years, and I think it will radically change our society for the better.
So far, so good.
But in purely party political terms, could it actually be bad for the Tories? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh no &#8211; I return to my bin obsession</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/06/oh-no-i-return-to-my-bin-obsession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/06/oh-no-i-return-to-my-bin-obsession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Localism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.platform10.org/?p=1188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m about to do this. I SWORE I wouldn&#8217;t write any more about bins&#8230; but it turns out I still need to.
One of the main headlines on Today this morning was that bin taxes were going to be abolished by the new government. Then on WATO, Eric Pickles described beautifully how Conservatives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conservative Argument</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/06/a-conservative-argument/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/06/a-conservative-argument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betapolitics</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coalition building]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Making a Difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tackling poverty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.platform10.org/?p=1184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Coalitions are nothing new. The main political parties in Britain have always been coalitions of compromise between separate groups, competing to dominate decisions over direction. The Conservatives contain economic libertarians who are social authoritarians, and social liberals who back a certain amount of state intervention. Some of us believe that decisions related to the environment [...]]]></description>
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