Demos has a new publication, The Politics of Public Behaviour, which explores the role of government in influencing people's lifestyles and everyday decision-making.
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- The Politics of Public Behaviour Demos published a new pamphlet yesterday: The Politics of Public Behaviour. It looks at the public consequences of private decisions. The aim was to ask where and when government should involve itself in people’s personal decision-making, from parenting to carbon emissions, diet, exercise, pensions savings, gambling and organ donorship. It seems on all this issues and more the public/private boundary is becoming blurred. continue reading at 4:00pm
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Political Science
A couple of thoughts struck me this morning as I listened to the debate on the today programme (at 7.35) about the (re)re-classification of cannabis:
continue reading on 7th May 2008 Comments (2) - Old habits die hard? There has been much in the news in the last few months about the past lives of our politicians, but how much do these really matter? I think there is good reason to be cautious about David Cameron's 'transformation' of the Conservative Party, given his past record and the prevailing economic consensus. continue reading 1st May 2008