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society and civility
Review: Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Times Higher Education,
2 February 2012
Informal links keep society strong but, Frank Furedi finds, we don't make them like we used to.
Do good, but do it our way
The Australian,
3 December 2011
Volunteering has been turned into an institution that is promoted on the grounds of its benefits for the volunteer and for the community, and its meaning has been thoroughly transformed.
Changing societal attitudes, and regulatory responses, to risk-taking in adult care
Joseph Rowntree Foundation,
22 September 2011
A scoping paper by Frank Furedi, commissioned by JRF for a potential new programme on 'Rights, responsibilities, risk and regulation'.
Cameron’s cure will make society sicker
spiked,
23 August 2011
The PM's post-riots promise of more intervention into troubled families is mad – it is precisely such intervention that devastated parental authority.
Politicians are like children: they just don’t know when to stop
The Australian,
20 August 2011
Cameron's call to turn around 120,000 troubled families represents an excellent example of what can most accurately be described as a fantasy policy.
Rioting in England: was it just a bad dream?
spiked,
15 August 2011
The elite’s claim that this was just another facet of the ‘culture of greed’ shows how incapable they are of addressing urban implosion.
Why London’s burning
The Australian,
13 August 2011
The riots that erupted in Tottenham, north London, and then spread to other parts of this metropolis before erupting in other English cities are the consequence of a unique form of community disintegration.
Where gay matrimony meets elite sanctimony
The Australian,
25 June 2011
Gay marriage has emerged as one of the most controversial and divisive issues of our time.
Hating Tesco: a passion of both the PC and the BNP
spiked,
11 May 2011
Trendy leftists and far-right activists disagree on many things, but they have one conviction in common: supermarkets are evil.
The culture war behind the Will’n’Kate debate
spiked,
26 April 2011
The wedding has exposed big fault lines within the British elite, with defensive monarchists on one side and snobbish cynics on the other.
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