Britain: "Big Society?" Big Profits more like it! When David Cameron announced "The Big Society" (a name nicked from the American President Lyndon B. Johnson who used it in the '60s) during the election, most people laughed and assumed that would be the last we would hear of it. Tory spokespeople said that they had no idea what it meant and one Tory MP described it as "Bollocks." Indeed. However, now safely inside Number 10, Cameron has brought up it up again.
Britain: Defend Council Housing From Con-Dem Attack Journalists usually refer to August as the silly season. It is in that context that we have the latest madcap idea to come from the Con-Dem coalition. According to plans leaked by the Guardian newspaper, council housing tenancies will no longer be ‘for life.’
Britain: The Housing Question - Part Three We conclude Dan Morley's three part study of the crisis inside UK housing.
