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Tuesday, 15 March 2011 06:31 |
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 By Michael Edwards
One of the strangest things about the current ‘Big Society’ debate is the absence of any historical perspective, as though ideas about civic participation were invented in 2010 rather than two thousand years before when Aristotle launched the first conversation about the rights and responsibilities of citizens, a conversation that has been embellished by an unbroken line of thinkers and activists ever since.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 06:35 |
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Monday, 14 March 2011 03:29 |
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 By Dimi Reider
Late on Friday night, a Palestinian militant scaled the fence of the settlement of Itamar, south-east of Nablus. He made his way to one of the homes and climbed in through an open window. The first room he encountered was a nursery. He paced in and plunged a knife into a sleeping three-year-old toddler. Still unnoticed, he made his way to an adjacent bedroom, where he found and slayed an 11-year-old boy; then, finally arrived at the master bedroom, where he stabbed and killed the parents along with a four-month-old baby girl.
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Last Updated on Monday, 14 March 2011 03:38 |
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Friday, 11 March 2011 11:31 |
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 By Mary Creagh
The Sustainable Development Commission held its final summit on Tuesday March 1st, just days before its abolition by the government. The previous day ministers put their new sustainable development strategy online – no press launch, no fanfare. Their strategy rings with ideological hollowness and demonstrates the lack of vision for sustainability in government. They have a plan for cuts but no plan for the environment.
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Last Updated on Friday, 11 March 2011 11:43 |
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Friday, 11 March 2011 11:11 |
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 By Sikhs Against The EDL
Members of the British Sikh community would be very disappointed to learn that Guramit Singh, one of the self-styled leaders of the English Defence League (EDL), who also is from a Sikh background, will now not face charges after he was arrested last year on suspicion of causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress.
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Last Updated on Friday, 11 March 2011 11:23 |
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 09:21 |
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 By Aparna Pande
This is not the first time an Indian Prime Minister has extended a “hand of friendship” towards Pakistan, nor is it the first time Dr. Manmohan Singh has done so. Prime Minister Nehru repeatedly offered his hand of friendship and so did his successors Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. IK Gujral hoped the Gujral doctrine would help lessen the trust deficit and Vajpayee undertook a bus yatra to reaffirm that India has accepted the creation of Pakistan and wishes Pakistan well. Dr. Manmohan Singh has repeatedly offered his hand of friendship to Pakistan and expressed the desire to reduce the trust deficit between the two countries.
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