Henry Tam casts a critical eye over the Coalition's ‘Big Society’ policy agenda and sees in it not a platform for citizen engagement and localised service provision but a barely concealed ‘small state’ agenda, with more in common with the Thatcherite politics of the 1980s than David Cameron and Conservatives might admit.
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