‘Marriage is a public institution and essential to society’

by DannyKruger | Mar 12, 2021 | Family, Proposition

●  Marriage is the way society regulates baby-making – a liberal way of ensuring more children grow up in a stable family ●  Marriage is becoming a middle-class phenomenon, further exacerbating inequality ●  We have successively abolished the...

‘The household is properly an economic institution, sustained by a better work-life balance’

by DannyKruger | Mar 11, 2021 | Family, Proposition

●  Industrialisation and deindustrialisation have disrupted the economic basis of the household ●  Policy seems designed to make the home as uncomfortable and pointless as possible ●  A better settlement would help women and men do more of what they...

‘People are naturally skilled for the work of the future: the vocations of care and creativity’

by DannyKruger | Mar 10, 2021 | Family, Proposition

●  Automation is making manual and clerical jobs redundant ●  Human beings are uniquely good at creative and caring roles, and we should focus on developing skills and opportunities here ●  There is a special role for young people in helping society...

‘We need a new principle of “community power” to let people take back control of their neighbourhoods’

by DannyKruger | Mar 9, 2021 | Community, Proposition

●  Successive governments have reduced the power and competence of local councils ●  We need more power for councils – but also for communities themselves ●  The UK should lead the world in innovations in democracy and local governance In the...

‘In public services we can have quality in abundance, not equity in scarcity’

by DannyKruger | Mar 8, 2021 | Community, Proposition

●  Public services are too centralised and individualised ●  ‘Social solutions’ are growing through the cracks in the Attlee settlement ●  We need a place-based model of public services which draws on the huge resources oflocal communities I argued in...