Titter ye might. The Big Society? In 1997? If the idea was of, erm, limited electoral
worth in our last general election, then it was certainly of little use when Tony Blair hurtled into power all those years ago. Yet there is was, mostly speaking, in the “Civic
Conservatism” espoused chiefly by David Willetts.
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