Tag Archives: Social Mobility

Luke’s World: It doesn’t have to be like this

Luke wants to be a vet. But you’ve heard him. He doesn’t think he’ll make it. He doesn’t know how to make it from where he is. He’s fatalistic – he thinks he’ll probably end up like his sister. There … Continue reading

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Is Miliband’s “British Promise” one to watch?

Ed Miliband spoke at the weekend to the Progress conference. It hardly won critical acclaim: a New Statesman blog called it the ‘worst speech he has ever delivered’ and John Rentoul wasn’t impressed by its ‘cliché-wridden verbiage.’ The speech did have one … Continue reading

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Why everyone should be hoping the Big Society works

In my first blog post on Platform 10, I commented that “[the] Big Society is so very often considered a domestic phenomenon.” This isn’t surprising, given that we have a huge array of domestic problems from a dangerous high level … Continue reading

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Why Dave Clements is wrong on nudge and the Big Society

Dave Clements at the Guardian Joe Public Blog has got entirely the wrong end of the stick on nudging, the Big Society and indeed the Tories generally. He seems to think that there is some great conspiracy to entrench government … Continue reading

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The Absence of Conservative Women

At the 2005 general election, seventeen women were elected as Conservative MPs.  Seventeen men called David were also elected as Conservative MPs, and the Shadow Cabinet contained more Davids than women.  This number of Conservative women elected was dwarfed both by Labour’s … Continue reading

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