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The Disraeli Room

The Disraeli Room is a hub for new ideas, commentary and analysis. ResPublica's blog is named after the great reforming Prime Minister of the nineteenth century, Benjamin Disraeli, and welcomes contributions from across the political, academic and professional spectrum.

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Anarchism As Management Theory

15^th March 2013
- Liam Barrington-Bush
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As we’ve stumbled our collective way into ‘The Age of Social,’ countless systems, across all parts of society have begun to look woefully ill-equipped for a world in which a single tweet may come to exert as much influence as the media moguls of the 20th Century ever have imagined possible.
Building Community and Opportunity: A new approach to local growth

5^th March 2013
- Julian Dobson
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Politicians of all shades should be pleased that the latest report from the think tank ResPublica is about Britain’s strivers. While researching it I was struck by the amount of striving that goes on, often in unexpected places.
A Parliament for the NHS?

25^th February 2013
- Titus Alexander
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The most fundamental issues raised by the Francis report on Mid-Staffordshire Hospital are not about the institutions or even culture, but about voice and power: who is heard, who is silenced and who, tragically, dies from deafness.
Mid Staffs: The public sector’s Lehman Brothers

18^th February 2013
- Simon Caulkin
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Mid-Staffs is the public sector’s Lehman Brothers, an organisation in which staff were faced in the wrong direction, the numbers were bogus and measured the wrong thing, and managers spent 95 per cent of their time on the wrong part of the job.
Citizen Centric Cities

13^th February 2013
- Tristan Wilkinson
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We all have our daily routines. Depending on where I am, mine either starts at 6am with a dash to London or at 7am with breakfast and taking the kids to school followed by a day working at home.
The Future of Love: The erotic politics of Benedict XVI

13^th February 2013
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The papacy of Benedict XVI, though sadly short, has been one of immense significance. More than any other Pope in recent memory, he understood the deepest theological currents that lay behind Vatican II, and stood doggedly against a threatened revival of neo-scholastic conservatism by insisting on the co-belonging of faith and reason.
Smart Islands in a Dumb City

11^th February 2013
- Tristan Wilkinson
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The concept of a smart or future city has been around for several years now. We have all seen the video that shows how our journey to the airport will be transformed in the future, with transport systems that are not only fully integrated, but intelligent enough to respond to changing circumstances and demands.
Reform, Rearrange and Resource: The three Rs we really need

5^th February 2013
- Monika Kruesmann
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Education is one of those subjects, up there with healthcare, law and order, and possibly religion, which never fails to attract attention and generate discussion. On the whole this is a good thing; sharing ideas and information is the key to catalysing change.
Issues Encountered by Family Carers of the Elderly

25^th January 2013
- Alex Ingram
- Deborah Stone
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Caring for ageing parents can put a huge strain on families, particularly those people who may also be looking after young children at the same time. There are both emotional and financial implications to negotiate, and if the parent or parents being looked after have a degenerative condition, such as Alzheimer’s, those caring for them can feel overwhelmed by the responsibility and unsure how best to meet the needs of their parent and their own family at the same time.
The Depardieu Affair

21^st January 2013
- Simon Caulkin
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It’s no pleasure to see the once great (and make no mistake, Gérard Depardieu is, or was, the most charismatic French actor since Jean Gabin) turn themselves into a laughing stock.

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