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Financial Literacy Classes in Schools? What a Waste of Money
Civil society holds the key to a more financially responsible future
"...evidence from the US finds that students who take a high school course in personal finance perform just as poorly as those who don’t..."
Last week: Modernising Gift Aid (and our Homepage)
Diary Stories, 23rd April 2010
We will be hosting three major round tables with charity, technology and consultancy representatives over the next three months to stress-test the best approaches in this space. To enquire about joining our working group, or to learn more about the project, please contact project authors Asheem Singh (asheem.singh@respublica.org.uk) and Samuel Middleton (samuel.middleton@respublica.org.uk).
Phillip’s thoughts on the damage the welfare state has caused received some coverage on Conservative Home last week, which you can find here. He was also profiled in the Financial Times weekend magazine. He had earlier last month traveled up to his hometown of Liverpool and met local residents, sharing and debating his ideas with them, which you can read about in the article here. On Wednesday night of last week Phillip was on a political panel on Rory Bremner’s show in Horsham.
Our homepage got a make-over this week as well, which you can see here, it now features the latest posts from our blog ‘The Disraeli Room’, one of which focused on the Erotic Capital and was featured on the ‘Broke is Beautiful’ blog, which you can read here and was also discussed on Twitter here.
Tax, Benefits and the Case for a Citizens' Income
Some thought experiments
"...A citizens income ... would remove unfair anomalies and make abuse much harder to commit, but it would also produce a clear and simple progress from overall benefit recipient to overall tax payer..."
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults – it is Everybody’s Responsibility
The shocking case of Michael Gilbert
The Die Is Cast
Calling the odds of an unpredictable election
Here's an Idea: Managed Change
A radical idea for crisis governance from guest poster Chris Cook
On the Shortcomings of Voting
Why electoral reform may well be necessary but certainly will not be sufficient
Memo to All Parties: Social Enterprise remains Your Ally
Social enterprises continue to transform lives and innovate. A new government cannot afford not to enable their agenda
When Political Parties Agree (on What's Good)
The 'beef' with civil society
A Green Change
Who to watch in the environmental policy area
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"...Too many Conservative commentators look back to the glory days of Baroness Thatcher and assume that all is required is a return to the eternal Thatcherite verities of sound money, low taxes, a strong defence, tough on Europe and tough on immigration to deliver a substantial Parliamentary majority.
This recipe did not work in 1997, 2001 and 2005, and only the more progressive message of David Cameron in 2010 delivered substantial gains, which despite being considerable left the Conservatives still short of an overall majority..." - by Asheem Singh 40
"...A small, social start up finds that its biggest competitor is the state it is trying to help. Not only that but the state attempts to crowd out its competitor by using the very same domain name. She would be entitled to ask: whose side are they on?..."
- by Phillip Blond 5
"...The existing First Past the Post (FPTP) system is creaking at the seams, it was defensible when the threshold for winning an election was around 45 per cent of the vote and the two parties that alternated in power could each rely on 40 per cent or more..."
