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David Chaplin Articles

Beyond the ‘banlieue’

Three weeks ago parts of London erupted in violence. Now, as the August lull fades, it seems that the memory of those scary few days is as well. The worst thing we could do now is forget the real problems which triggered that violence.  The people, old and young, who...
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When a riot isn’t a riot

The violence we've seen in London over the past three days has been indiscriminate. The family of Mark Duggan deserve answers from the police, and they must get them sooner rather than later. But the masked mobs on our streets are not rioters, they are criminals, and...
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Has parliament’s crisis passed?

Just over two years ago in May 2009 our parliament was in a deep crisis of its own making. But it seems that the new intake of MPs have spent the last year working to restore confidence to the House of Commons, and equally with the threat of extinction the Lords have...
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Social capital: Labour’s ‘big society’?

While back in March, blue Labour was being branded as the centre-left’s alternative to the warm embrace of the ‘big society’, the latest buzz is about the rebirth of social capital and growing optimism amongst leftie thinkers about how it works in Britain. Could this be Labour’s newest big idea?

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