Well, that may have been the case in terms of Scargill's own personal ambitions, but many of the miners beaten to a pulp by various police forces, who then lied about it, had no similar ones. Th… (View Post)

I don't think a Big Society is mainly, or only volunteering, though. It's also about people asking themselves, quite simply, how much they are doing for those around them, at family, commun… (View Post)

It defintely has, and nothing has replaced it. As I mentioned, collective activities are often sneered at by both the modern left and right. There is this glimmer of hope about the very youngest coho… (View Post)

On the question below, there were few things less likely to promote a Big Society of voluntary cross-co-operation than Osborne's sneering comments on people seeing their lazy, shirker neighbours… (View Post)

The foodbank sector was much smaller before 2014, however, as discussed and referenced exhaustively on previous PB threads. The voluntary sector will need to expand if you pursue failed and neanderth… (View Post)