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That sounds like a massive question, doesn’t it?  Don’t read on if you expect me to answer it in this blog post – I’m merely aiming to think through the MPs’ expenses debacle and what questions recent events might raise for the Citizenship Foundation.
Over the past couple of days I’ve had conversations with Andy (Director [...]

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Yesterday, listening to Radio 4 while I got ready to go to work, I was struck by an exchange between the Cabinet Minister, Liam Byrne MP, and Jill Kirby, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies. Liam Byrne was announcing a new Government funded research scheme to ‘identify and promote innovative ways for the third [...]

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Tony and Ade gave evidence to the Speaker’s Conference yesterday and I came along to provide moral support and take notes.
The Speaker’s Conference is investigating how to rectify ‘the disparity between the representation of women, ethnic minorities and disabled people in the House of Commons and their representation in the UK population at large’. [...]

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I sacrificed my lie-in on Saturday to attend the Convention on Modern Liberty, which was co-directed by opendemocracy’s Anthony Barnett and the Guardian’s Henry Porter. I went on behalf of the Citizenship Foundation as a few of our projects are concerned with ‘rights and responsibilities’, but also because I’m personally interested in these debates [...]

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