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	<title>Platform 10 &#187; Making a Difference</title>
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		<title>Is David Miliband a Red Tory?</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/09/is-david-miliband-a-red-tory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/09/is-david-miliband-a-red-tory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betapolitics</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Labour party members, trade unionists, and those in the parliamentary party have been receiving their leadership voting forms. Their collective decision will have a big impact on UK politics and possibly on Britain itself. Last night, Channel 4 held the last TV debate between the leadership candidates. David Miliband most impressed with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving equity requires a liberal conservative reform agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/08/achieving-equity-requires-a-liberal-conservative-reform-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/08/achieving-equity-requires-a-liberal-conservative-reform-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Garman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IFS has recently released a report criticising the Coalition’s claim that the budget was “progressive” by stating that it will hit the poor hardest. Instead of criticising the IFS’ work, I believe it is more appropriate to discuss why any genuinely progressive government needs to reform the country and that only through reform can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ticking boxes, putting people in them, and why the state does not mean society</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/08/ticking-boxes-putting-people-in-them-and-why-the-state-does-not-mean-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/08/ticking-boxes-putting-people-in-them-and-why-the-state-does-not-mean-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fuss over the ‘landmine’ of the Equality Act is completely ridiculous. The Act doesn’t require anything beyond a consideration of how government actions impact on people – which frankly is something I would expect any halfway competent politician to do anyway.
I think there is an argument to be had about the way that governments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church eyes up the Big Society</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/the-church-eyes-up-the-big-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/the-church-eyes-up-the-big-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betapolitics</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, believes we are at a watershed moment in politics. The Big Society agenda is bringing to the fore the debate around how best to facilitate social good. For Williams, at the heart of this agenda is the conviction that for society to change the dominant individualistic narrative needs to [...]]]></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>
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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>Gordon Brown &#8211; the latest convert to the Big Society</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/gordon-brown-the-latest-convert-to-the-big-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/gordon-brown-the-latest-convert-to-the-big-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure whether this is a good or a bad thing, but Gordon Brown&#8217;s interview in the Independent today shows him to be just the latest in a long line of converts to the Big Society.
Here are some choice quotes:
&#8220;We&#8217;re just recovering from the 1980s,&#8221; says Bryan. &#8220;We know what works.&#8221; Brown nods grimly. [...]]]></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>
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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>
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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>The Future of Conservative Thinking is Doing</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/the-future-of-conservative-thinking-is-doing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/the-future-of-conservative-thinking-is-doing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betapolitics</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday the Institute for Government hosted a discussion entitled “The Future of Conservative Thinking”. The heavyweight panel consisted of Nick Boles MP (a member of Cameron’s inner circle), Phillip Blond (Director of Respublica), James Forsyth (Deputy Editor of the Spectator), and Jonty Olliff-Cooper (part of Demos’ Progressive Conservatism Project). 
Big Society Is My Society 
Jonty Olliff-Cooper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nudge works</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/nudge-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/nudge-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quality of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday after PMQs, I had a text from a VERY non-political friend who said she thought that David Cameron&#8217;s description of Raoul Moat as a &#8216;callous murderer&#8217; was outrageous and went far too far for a Prime Minister.
Today, the Facebook page which caused so much of more of the outrage has been taken down &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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