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Ken McLaughlin
Time to abolish the psychiatric ASBO
Placing state-backed constraints on ex-mental patients is a flagrant violation of their autonomy.
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| Wednesday 6 February 2013 |
Ken McLaughlin
The state agencies undermining agency
New UK safeguarding legislation is set to make it easier still for the authorities to enter people’s homes.
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| Wednesday 28 November 2012 |
Rob Lyons
Don’t wish Beveridge a happy birthday
On the 70th anniversary of the publication of the Beveridge Report, it’s time radicals addressed the devastating social costs of welfarism.
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| Monday 30 April 2012 |
Ken McLaughlin
We don’t want to be ‘empowered’, thanks
The fad for empowerment in social work and politics is really about making people comply with state diktat.
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| Monday 26 March 2012 |
Ceri Dingle
‘People don’t just want to watch Jeremy Kyle’
A WORLDbytes film crew found Londoners in a supposed far-right stronghold took an intelligent approach to welfare.
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| Tuesday 1 November 2011 |
Dave Clements
Why feel charitable towards charities?
Charities in the UK have become far too dependent on state funding, at the cost of their independence.
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| Wednesday 27 July 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
From working class to incapacitated class
How radical activists shifted from viewing the working classes as powerful to pitying them as pathetic.
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| Monday 26 July 2010 |
David Clements
A Big Society with small ambitions
The jury is out on whether David Cameron’s flagship initiative will really reduce the role of the state in our lives.
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| Tuesday 22 June 2010 |
Jennie Bristow
Sure Start: a fancy new way to police the family
Sure Start’s main achievement has been to transform the social problem of child poverty into an individual problem of poor parenting.
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| Wednesday 5 May 2010 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Public health and the obsession with behaviour
ESSAY: Recent thinking on health policy has been driven by two myths: that bad health is caused by bad habits, and that government can promote good health by changing our behaviour.
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| Wednesday 28 April 2010 |
Jennie Bristow
Turning parents into ‘partners of the state’
ELECTION ESSAY: Thanks to New Labour, the family is no longer seen as a haven in a heartless world, but as a site of all sorts of abuse.
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| Wednesday 21 April 2010 |
James Panton
What’s so great about the welfare state?
ESSAY: The origins of state welfare were far from progressive, and in its new therapeutic form it is actually a barrier to human solidarity.
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| Tuesday 23 March 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Turning immigration into a tool of social engineering
ELECTION ESSAY: The elite now expresses its snobbery and authoritarianism by being ‘pro-immigration’ rather than anti-immigration.
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| Tuesday 16 March 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Education: you can’t buy and sell intellectual capital
ELECTION ESSAY: Frank Furedi explains why the mighty mess Labour made of education won’t be fixed by privatisation or parental pressure.
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| Thursday 19 November 2009 |
David Clements
Welfare: how help becomes a hindrance
With the shift of emphasis from welfare to wellbeing, the state reinforces the sense that we are unable to cope with life.
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| Thursday 27 August 2009 |
Neil Davenport
You say underclass, we say white trash
Chris Grayling’s comparison of Moss Side with The Wire was silly, but his critics have vilified the working class, too.
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| Tuesday 21 July 2009 |
Tim Black
Scanning hoodies’ brains: eugenics by the back door?
Is children’s charity Kids Company really planning to send a mobile scanner to examine tearaways’ brains? Yes and no, says the charity’s founder.
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| Friday 29 May 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
A welfare state of mind
Andrew Brown’s Orwell Prize-winning book about fishing in Sweden casts slivers of light on how Sweden has changed and why its welfare state model is not something to emulate.
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| Wednesday 25 March 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The war between rights and responsibilities
Jack Straw’s new bill of rights is nothing like the Magna Carta: it would erode rather than enhance our liberty.
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