It’s now hard to find anyone with a good word to say about David Cameron’s “big society”. Conservatives tend to dismiss it as woolly utopianism (or simply “BS”), while Labour attacks it as a rhetorical cover for the cuts. But in his essay in this week’s New Statesman, Jon Cruddas, who is leading Labour’s policy review, argues that the concept was a sincere response to Britain’s problems and that his party can learn from Cameron’s “pro-social politics”. He writes:
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