Recommended readings for Thoughts for the Day
Who are we in the 21st century?
- Ten Core Values of the British Identity Telegraph 27 July 2005
- Bernard Crick and Kenan Malik Bernard Crick v Kenan Malik: What should integration mean in Britain today? JCWI Bulletin Winter 2004/ 2005
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Post-Multiculturalism and Citizenship Values Immigrant Council of
Further:
- Linda Martin Alcoff et al Identity Politics Reconsidered Palgrave Macmillan January 2006
- New UK citizenship testing starts BBC News 1 November 2005
- State Consolidation and National Identity: Science and Technique of Democracy No 38 Venice Commission 2005
- Kenan Malik What is it to be human? What science cand cannot tell us about human nature Academy of Ideas paper 2002
Money is not the root of all evil
- Jane Stevenson Power to the people Guardian Aug 13 2006
- Polly Toynbee Money and Happiness Guardian 07 March 2003
- George Monbiot What do we really want? Guardian 27 August 2002
Further:
- Tim Parks Medici Money Profile Business 2006
- Mark Vernon More than a pleasure Guardian 31 July 2006
- Polly Toynbee Money and Happiness Guardian 07 March 2003
- Richard Layard Income and happiness: rethinking economic policy LSE Lecture 27 February 2003 (pdf)
- The root of all evil? Economist 23 December 1999
- Hunter Davies Living on the Lottery Time Warner Paperback 1997
- Ayn Rand 'Fransisco's Money Speech' from 'Atlas Shrugged'
Food for thought in the Cafe: Tyranny of skills
- Review of the future role of FE Colleges Department for Education and Skills
- Sandy Leitch Leitch Review of Skills and the Economy HM Treasury 05 April 2005
Further:
- Mike Tomlinson Curriculum and Qualifications Report Department for Education and Skills October 2004
- The Nuffield Review of 14-19 Training and Education
- Katherine Demopoulos Brown call to raise school-leaving age Guardian 25 September 2006
Are we paralysed by risk-aversion in the 21st century?
- Simon Jenkins Don’t panic – or our culture of caution will be the death of us The Sunday Times 11 June 2006
- David Runciman The Precautionary Principle
Further:
- Ulrich Beck Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity Sage 1992
- Simon Jenkins Paradox and paranoia in the war on terror The Times Literary Supplement 22 February 2006
- Cass R. Sunstein Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle
- Michael Power The Risk Management of Everything Demos 2004
- Frank Furedi Culture of Fear: Risk-taking and the Morality of Low Expectation Continuum 2002
- John Adams Risky Business Adam Smith Institute 1999 (pdf)
- John Adams Risk Routledge 1995
'Nuff respect? Questioning the 'respect' agenda
- Sam Knight and Agencies 'Problem' families face eviction as Tony Blair demands 'Respect' The Times 10 January 2006
Further:
- Respect Action Plan Respect Task Force, Home Office 2006 (pdf)
- What's Respect About? Respect Task Force, Home Office 2006
- PM hears 'evidence' from Respect experts
- Alexander Deane The Great Abdication: Why Britain's Decline is the Fault of the Middle Class Imprint Academic 2005
- Kate Fox Watching the English Hodder and
- Craig O'Malley, Stuart Waiton and Dolan Cummings (ed.) Who's Antisocial? New Labour and the Politics of Antisocial Behaviour Academy of Ideas 2005
- Lynee Truss Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door) Profile Books Ltd 2005
- Stuart Waiton Scared of the Kids: Curfews, Crime and the Regulations of Young People Perpetuity Press Ltd 2005
- Hazel Blears The Politics of Decency Mutuo 2004
- Frank Field Neighbours from Hell: The Politics of Behaviour Politico's Publishing Ltd 2003
- Zygmunt Bauman Liquid Modernity Polity Press 2000
- Mark
Food for thought in the Cafe: Nature knows best? The organic food debate
- Lord Melchett Soil Association versus Anthony Trewavas FRS Food Ilustrated magazine 2002
Further:
- Justine Brian Organic Food & Farming: Myth and Reality Soil Association 2001
- Jonathan Dimbleby The Origins of the Organic Movement Floris Books 2001