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Remarkable insight from the Telegraph.
Posted by Declan on 23 July 2011 - 11:28am.
This is, I think, a well considered article on a topic dear to our Massive hearts.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8655106/Im-starting-to-think-th...
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I read this earlier.
He, wrote that, in there? Does not compute, does not compute.
But it does compute
Charles Moore is an old-fashioned Catholic and what he's espousing here is the good old-fashioned Catholic social/political theory of "Distributism". My dad used to bang on about this the whole time; it was a big thing in the liberal Catholic circles he moved in in the 50s and 60s - they thought that both the Tory and Labour parties were founded on wrong-headed, harmful principles (state socialism on the one hand, free-market capitalism on the other). There are elements of "distributism" in both Tony Blair's "Third Way" and Cameron's "Big Society". Pretty good explanation on Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
thanks for posting the link Declan
Interesting stuff indeed...
What you've all said, plus
it's actually quite a good paper (imo) anyway in some areas, e.g. tech
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/
which I browse quite regularly-and Oborne's Murdoch coverage. It's changed quite a lot since the paper my parents read in the 70s, when Alan Coren made a crack about reading it by candlelight in the 3-day week, and that this seemed somehow appropriate ...