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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by DannyKruger | Mar 7, 2021 | Community, Proposition
● Businesses, like individuals, are relational, and operate in a moral context ● The purpose of a business is to serve the public ● Government could stimulate a boom in the social economy In the previous post (Proposition 6) I argued that the doctrine of...
