'We Have a Choice. Face Up to This Crisis or Commit Social Suicide
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WHAT William Beveridge did in the Forties, Iain Duncan Smith is set to do for our current era. Beveridge's famous report produced a blueprint for addressing the social problems of the day, and laid the foundations for the Welfare State which has shaped British society for the past six decades.
But now Britain's social fabric is crumbling round the edges with shockingly high rates of crime, drug and alcohol abuse and teenage pregnancy. Far from meeting need, the State is either ignoring it or even 'Melanie Phillips actively making things worse. In our advanced, spoiled consumer society, we no longer have mere poverty.See the full content of this document
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'We Have a Choice. Face Up to This Crisis or Commit Social Suicide
Shamefully, we have created an entire class apart people who are permanently trapped in an economic, cultural and social limbo-land which lies outside the mainstream of our society.
Tomorrow, Mr Duncan Smith will attempt to change all that when he publishes the final report of his Social Justice Commission. His interim report, last year, laid out ...See the full content of this document
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