Sentences with phrase «of big society»

After the riots that rocked so many communities south of the border, I am struck by David Cameron's violent shift from the idea of big society to sick society.

A study of the Big Society social intervention project in the United Kingdom argued that «the philanthropic environment promotes and facilitates one - way, inherently unequal relationships between donors and recipients» (Rodger 2013, 737).

But locally, a different sort of big society is emerging organically, and it is presenting one of the biggest headaches for the coalition.

Mr Cameron delighted grassroots Tories by ditching some of his Big Society rhetoric in favour of a more traditional message on immigration and Europe.

They were disdainful of the Big Society and horrified by gay marriage.

But last night he said Labour should back David Cameron's idea of a Big Society.

«We were slow off the mark in appreciating the dangers of the big society agenda», Hazel Blears told Uncut.

If he builds on that message and also Michael Gove's education agenda he hits two of the three big themes that I've long argued should be the Conservative view of the big society.

There will be no repeat of the Big Society fiasco - where the main theme of the manifesto wasn't even poll tested.

David Cameron's vision of the Big Society is something we want and we want to help him achieve it.

There is no mention of the big society in the foreword to the mid-term review released overnight by Number 10.

He has encouraged his party to adopt a more mature attitude towards deficit reduction, as well as preached the creed of the Big Society.

Equally, in 2010 a profusion of books about Cameron's vision of the Big Society didn't provide much of a guide to the coalition government's actual programme.

Local authorities are likely to be both beneficiaries and victims of the Big Society.

Even the obvious supporters of the Big Society are looking distinctly uncomfortable.

Hulme believes this is when the accountability deficit at the heart of the Big Society will become a huge problem.

«The sentiment of the Big Society is to be encouraged and, certainly, the government have put decentralisation at the heart of domestic policy agenda.

Not one mention of the Big Society, and the Global Race — which was last year's relentlessly hammered conference speech theme — featured only once.

The development follows a decision by Liverpool City Council to pull out of the Big Society initiative.

«The talk of the Big Society is meaningless, there is just no substitute for public services and, despite the denials, it is a cover for cuts.

Howls of delight soon went up from the opposition benches as Cameron hopefully championed the role of his big society — a joke the PM had probably wished he'd left in the cracker.

It is a great shame that it is now trying to use the present economic crisis to take cheap political shots at the idea of the big society itself.

As such, this Bill forms an important part of the Big Society vision.

Whatever one thinks about the potency of the Big Society as a political message — and I have my doubts, as I have said before — it is based on a good Conservative principle: that the state's role is limited, and voluntary groups have an important part to play in helping society flourish.

When Cameron attempts to dodge the big questions on water and make affordability the responsibility of the big society, we will expose it.

By extension, a significant part of a Big Society - type response to the riots involves returning responsibility to individuals in two very specific (and, as yet, underexplored) ways.

The Cameronite language of the Big Society is held up in opposition to the Big Government of the (New) Labour Party.

While attempts to define the concept of the big society are tricky — if not impossible — the prime minister has given us some idea of what success ought to look like.

Nevertheless, the abandonment of the Big Society has big risks.

Whilst not as explicit as David Cameron with his promotion of the Big Society, attitudes towards civil society are integral to understanding the core of Thatcherism.

They could also be cited as examples of the Big Society, although the modern nomenclature seems a bit patronising.

There's too deep an irony at the heart of the big society.

If it means voluntary groups can, and do, bid for local contracts, it will have succeeded in delivering some of the big society's objectives.

And for all the talk of the Big Society and charities stepping into the gap, the brutal truth is that voluntary organisations will face some of the deepest cuts of all.

Anybody who is looking for an example of the Big Society in action need only go to this temple.

Not exact matches

Instead, we'll have to have society - wide conversations about the dangers and ethics of this sort of «big data.»

It's going to mean big changes for society considering they're vastly different kind of workers compared with the generations that have come before them.

«I'm not exaggerating when I say AVs will have as big an impact on our cities and society as the arrival of the first cars over 100 years ago,» says Barrie Kirk, head of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), which is striving to build an ecosystem of organizations to supply the market's needs.

The venture - backed startup path is such a big part of society in this zeitgeist right now that it's attracting people that it's not the right fit for.

When you can stroll over to a tap whenever you like and help yourself to a glass of clear, cool water, it is hard to believe that one of the biggest business opportunities of the 21st century — and one of the best opportunities for business to give back to society — lies in supplying fresh water.

The American Meteorological Society published research in 2011 that found current temperature has a bigger effect on our happiness than variables like wind speed and humidity, or even the average temperature over the course of a day.

Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

«Social entrepreneurs are people who look at society and see the big problems and see innovative solutions that are permanent and can change the fabric of society,» says Dr. Lyndon Haviland, interim CEO for Darkness to Light, a non-profit organization tasked with preventing the sexual abuse of children.

If we are living in a time of with massive economic change or a big shift in society's preferences, someone who invests like Buffett will get caught off guard.

For me, it means thinking about unique ways to help solve some of society's biggest problems, with the courage to not always have the right answer the first time.

Only 30 % of Americans think that what is good for business is good for society generally, and 65 % of Americans think that most of the world's biggest businesses have taken unethical actions like dodging taxes; that view is widely shared by people in the survey, which was conducted in September.

The Always - On Society John Sculley, former CEO of both PepsiCo and Apple Computer, predicted that wireless devices and networks would be «at least as big as the PC.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

A big society is a society for the promotion of narrowness.»