March 2010
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Poverty, Politics and Brain Size
ResPublica's Sandra Gruescu questions the emerging consensus on and use of neuroscience in parenting
"...brain size is affected, but the level of neglect has to be extreme. Unfortunately Mr. Duncan Smith forgot to mention that the study in question looked at 'extreme extremes': at children in Romanian orphanages who, before the madness of Mr and Mrs Ceausescu came to a violent end in December 1989, were kept in cages, tied to their beds and treated worse than animals over a prolonged period of time. The question we have to ask is the extent to which data based upon these horrific cases should be imported directly and applied to 'Broken Britain.'..."
A Psephological Quandry
A pragmatic view of the electoral reform debate
"...As though in riposte to our Great Debate on electoral reform, the Conservative poll lead fell to 2 per cent nationally over the weekend - a margin small enough that, were this a national election rather than an internet poll of roughly 2,000 adults, election experts would translate this outcome to a Labour victory, with a majority of seats no less. Politics being what it is, this, more than any argument, might be what it takes to reverse Tory opposition to a more proportional form of representation..."
Liberty, Innovation, and an Invitation
ResPublica's Deputy Director, Asheem Singh, on the radical future of our most ancient freedoms
"...Only the innovators on our side can stem the tide of the innovators on 'theirs.' And it is not in regulating or auditing the innovators in our communities that we will develop community innovation and ethos – and so real power - but by reforming the concrete connections of the human commons of the future, and so binding future innovators to the cause of helping those communities..."
Dancing On A Pin Head
Author and ResPublica Fellow, Jules Peck, analyses Phillip Blond's debate with Charlie Leadbeater at the 'Names Not Numbers' event
"...I think there are many of us from the left and the right who are tired of the atomised, individualistic, consumerist and ‘for and to’ state of society. We are reaching out for something different. Initiatives like my favourite, the Transition Towns movement have given up waiting for Big Business and Big Government to provide solutions. They are the living, emergent example of ‘with and by’ society. Local people - butchers, bakers, candle-stick-makers, teachers and mothers - doing things with each other to bring about new forms of relations, production and consumption led by the citizens. They don’t look for things to be done for them. And they are no longer willing to have things done to them..."
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