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Britain From Above
Demos researcher Celia Hannon explains how British children use spaces in unexpected ways.
Celia Hannon
26th August 2008
| BBC
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Will the internet kill thinktanks?
They're still relied on to generate new ideas. But maintaining that privileged position in a web 2.0 world will require imagination
24th August 2008
| by Richard Reeves
| The Guardian
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What if they actually believe it?
George Osborne has now claimed "fairness" as a core Tory value, the latest of a series of raids deep into Labour territory
21st August 2008
| by Richard Reeves
| New Statesman
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How intrapeneurs can change the world
Think-tank Demos recently published a set of essays called ‘The Future Face of Enterprise’, about what the UK needs to do to raise its game. One contribution came from Microsoft UK boss Gordon Frazer, who argued that ‘intrapreneurs’ (entrepreneurial types working within big companies) were essential if businesses are ‘to deliver greater levels of meaningful innovation’. Working in a big company might seem the antithesis of most entrepreneurs’ ambitions – but he reckons it’s the easiest and quickest way to make a big splash…
21st August 2008
| Management Today
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Why the camping revival? Something to do with, ahem, the call of nature
To be dependent on the weather; to take time to construct a shelter for the night; to sleep with no bricks and mortar between you and the stars - all of that marks a radical contrast with lives that have become tame, domesticated and sanitised. Most people now do not do physical work; we live in our heads. Camping forces us to get out. As Reeves puts it: "We lead such non-elemental lives. This makes life elemental again."
20th August 2008
| by Jonathan Freedland
| The Guardian
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Give us back our big idea, Mr Cameron
The idea that we might have a fight about ‘fraternity’ at the next election shows just how far the centre ground of politics has moved. Not so long ago, people would have laughed if you suggested the Tories might have a stab at a row about feelings of solidarity. Indeed among Conservatives the very concept may still be a specialist taste. But a casual glance at David Cameron’s recent speeches reveals a pretty clear direction of travel.
14th August 2008
| by Liam Byrne
| The Spectator
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Politics gets personal
The politics of public behaviour
Suddenly politics has become personal: not the enmity between David Cameron and Gordon Brown, but the relationship between government and people. From green taxes to smoking bans, obesity crackdowns to parenting contracts, marriage incentives and even organ donorship, politicians find themselves grappling with the public consequences of private decisions.
14th August 2008
| by Duncan O'Leary
| Prospect magazine
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'No such thing as Cameronism'
David Cameron does not have a "coherent political philosophy" according to the director of thinktank Demos.
14th August 2008
| Politics.co.uk
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Comment: What does Cameron believe in?
Richard Reeves, the director of think tank Demos, claimed that "Cameronism is certainly not an ideology, nor even - yet - a coherent political philosophy".
