Category Archives: Social Justice

How Ed Miliband could build on his Conservative idea

The more I read about this welfare cap, the crosser I get. Not because it will take money away from anyone – far from it, frankly; more because it will still give people who don’t work over three times the … Continue reading

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Local communities can help eradicate the international slave trade

The discovery a few weeks ago of 24 slaves on a caravan site in Leighton Buzzard may have hit the front pages but, for most of us, the trafficking of men, women and children into our communities is something of … Continue reading

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Opportunity, Reciprocity and Responsibility: Refashioning British Morality

The events of the last week will shift the axis on which our country pivots, but in what way? David Cameron has strongly stated that the riots highlighted a cultural problem. Peter Oborne’s bombastic article uses the Credit Crunch and … Continue reading

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The Victorians, the Liberals and the welfare state

“Protection of the vicious poor involves aggression on the virtuous poor” The words quoted above are those of Herbert Spencer, a prominent Victorian sociologist. If I had read them last week I would have thought them moralising and hyperbolic. This … Continue reading

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Cameron, Miliband and Clegg should give the country a united message

The atmosphere on the streets of London feels tense tonight. I have just finished playing football in Caledonia Road against a backdrop of almost never ending sirens, blaring away somewhere in the distance. This feeling of being on edge is … Continue reading

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