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The Disraeli Room is a hub for new ideas, commentary and analysis. ResPublica's blog is named after the great reforming Prime Minister of the nineteenth century, Benjamin Disraeli, and welcomes contributions from across the political, academic and professional spectrum.

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  • The Everyday Peacemakers on our Streets

    14th June 2013

    Our collective breath was taken away by the bravery of the women who guarded Lee Rigby’s body, the soldier murdered in Woolwich on 22nd May, especially Ingrid Loyau-Kennett who engaged directly with the killers, bloody weapons still held tight in their hands.

  • A One Nation Approach to Small Businesses

    17th May 2013

    With the publication of Lord Young’s report the government has reminded us that it still holds Small Medium Enterprise (SME) growth central to the economic recovery. But by taking a One Nation approach and encouraging the creation of supply chains, small businesses would be able to grow, develop and compete together.

  • Making It Mutual: Community ownership of a valued British asset

    9th May 2013

    Three years ago Dover stood on the brink. The port was on the verge of breaking forever its historic links with the town and surrounding communities and passing into the hands of unknown private owners.

  • Heedful Histories: The contemporary curriculum

    26th April 2013

    It is admirable that the Secretary of State for Education wants to place history back at the centre of the national curriculum. It is similarly admirable that he wants to see it taught in a coherent and where possible chronological way which can reflect how events and topics meaningfully interrelate, rather than leaving the student unprepared in the face of an imposing and confusing compendium of mismatched material.

  • Co-operative Schools: Transforming teachers, students and communities

    25th April 2013

    The Co-operative College has over recent years worked with the Co-operative Party and schools to develop a distinct co-operative trust model that enables schools to embed co-operative values into the long term ethos of the school.

  • Poverty: What does it really mean?

    23rd April 2013

    The social and political agenda in the UK has been polarised over the past several weeks on the issue of welfare reform, with the Government supporting work-centred measures as a method of poverty relief, while different organisations and societal actors argue that these proposed measures would push even more people into poverty.

  • The Big Society in a Small Country

    19th April 2013

    It has been suggested that the Big Society is essentially an English affair. I do not agree. The basic thesis of my latest book, The Big Society in a Small Country: Wales, Social Capital, Mutualism and Self-Help, is that not only is the Big Society relevant to Wales in the sense of providing much needed practical policy solutions to pressing problems, it actually has the potential to achieve a far better fit with Welsh than English culture.

  • Making It Mutual: Establishing a local banking sector

    18th April 2013

    There is much to be said for local banking. Local banks are based in the community, lend to the community, and make all of their decisions in the community. Localised banks would not only provide a proper return to investors, but make sure that profits are ploughed back into the local area.

  • Around the World in Volatile Economies

    17th April 2013

    In 1791 Thomas Paine wrote: “there can be no such thing as a Nation flourishing alone in commerce; she can only participate”. In September 2010 William Hague, then the new Foreign Secretary, drew on this insight when addressing how Britain will continue to compete in the modern ‘networked world’.

  • Making It Mutual: Common ownership of land, infrastructure and natural assets

    15th April 2013

    Land is the ultimate non-renewable resource: they really aren’t making it any more. So does it matter who owns it? Owners of land come in many guises: private companies or individuals pursuing purely private ends, government in the interests of citizens, or not-for-profit organisations with a social or community-driven purpose.

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