Tag Archives: Making a Difference

Values, fairness, entitlement and reform

Posted on 30 January 2012 by Ed Jones

The benefits and bonuses debates have provoked important questions about our values and the answers will be fundamental to any successful reform of the state and society. The magnitude of the challenges ahead requires us to ask searching questions about … Continue reading →

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Banging vs balance

Posted on 15 December 2011 by Fiona Melville

Last night, David Cameron’s appearance before the 1922 committee was greeted with rapturous banging on desks. This is weird. Normal people do not do that. One of the disappointments I’ve had (it’s not a huge one in the wider scheme … Continue reading →

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Delivering public service reform: is it now or never?

Posted on 6 December 2011 by Edmund Coleridge

The Blairite centre-left think tank Policy Network has produced a rather interesting policy paper which should be a wake-up call for the Conservative leadership. Called “In the black Labour – Why fiscal conservatism and social justice go hand in hand” … Continue reading →

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The good, the bad and the ugly

Posted on 29 November 2011 by Fiona Melville

A trite title but an apt one… Let’s go in reverse order as I’m an optimistic kind of person. The Ugly Our deficit and debt positions are ugly. Our economy is going to get uglier. Most peoples’ living standards are … Continue reading →

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Mods, trads and why we’re all Conservatives

Posted on 17 November 2011 by Fiona Melville

followed by followed by Then  As I wrote in the Conservative Way Forward magazine during the party conference, ‘modernising’ (which is ugly shorthand and not something I would ever talk about in that way directly with voters) is not about … Continue reading →

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