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The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated
We are constantly being told that communities are under threat, that we are losing a 'sense of community'. This book finds that the notion of community in Britain is actually threatened by the very thing intended to protect it; relentless government and third party interventions bent on imposing their own forms of social cohesion on the population.
Dave Clements (Author, Editor), Alastair Donald (Editor), Martin Earnshaw (Editor), Austin Williams (Editor) , Pluto Press, 20 October 2008

Evolving consensus
Whilst on one level, being suspicious of elite organisations and challenging the unearned political authority of science is useful, Fuller misses the point that just because the elite believe it, doesn’t make it automatically wrong for the rest of us to agree.
Robin Walsh, Culture Wars, 4 September 2008

How right wing the left sounds after its moment of racial truth
Quick, somebody buy a wreath. Last week marked the passing of multiculturalism as official government doctrine. No longer will opponents of this corrosive and divisive creed be silenced simply by the massed Pavlovian ovine accusation: “Racist!”
Rod Liddle, The Times, 27 August 2008

‘We must break the limits of previous generations’
The creator of the world's first rotating skyscraper talks to spiked about changing the Dubai skyline and challenging post-9/11 gloom.
Alastair Donald, spiked, 26 August 2008

Don't pick a fight you can't finish, Mr Miliband
When he visits Kiev, the Foreign Secretary should remember the threats posed by Nato's drive eastwards
Anatol Lieven, The Times, 26 August 2008

Government slammed over youth crime
The Government has been accused of being too quick to criminalise youngsters for petty offences that could be dealt with outside the legal system.
Press Association, The Press Association, 24 August 2008

From insurgency to identity
Like a magician wriggling free from a straitjacket, Sinn Fein ditched universalism and reinvented itself as a party of victimhood.
Kevin Rooney, spiked, 22 August 2008

The politics of development
Far from being the exclusive terrain of experts, the issue of economic growth is one to be considered by society as a whole.
Stuart Simpson, Culture Wars, 21 August 2008

We may admire the Nordic way, but don't try to import it
It's easy to romanticise the welfare priority and democratic values, but it's all built on very un-British restrictions of freedom
Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian, 15 August 2008

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