Cameron will doubtless win cheers for promising to end the target culture, to empower police, teachers and doctors, to hold back the meddling, clumsy, long arm of central government. It all sounds good. But our civil society is too weak to carry the load he wants it to, and that would spell disaster for the very people he claims to care about.
Given that I tend to think that the sociological analysis of Zygmunt Bauman is about right, I have to say that a Conservative trying to run the country after promoting the trend to commercialise or monetise everything thus feeding the very forces that undermine the kind of solidarity and other-concern that he now wants to draw on, well ...
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