17.1.06

Webchatting our way to Respect

Do you have problems with anti-social neighbours? Are you tired of a lawless minority making your life a misery? Which measures would you like to see introduced to tackle unruly youngsters?

In his speech to launch the "Respect agenda" last week, Tony Blair claimed an affinity with the ideas of R. H. Tawney and Richard Sennett. Both have written about the corrosive effects of material inequality on "respect", but since New labour came to power inequality has risen sharply and continues on an upward trend. Why, then, this tinkering round the edges of petty authoritarianism, rather than tackling this real driver of anti-social behaviour? From Sennett's latest book: "Treating people with respect cannot occur simply by commanding it should happen." But that's your strategy, isn't it? So, is it because you're not serious about tackling low-level criminality, or just that you're not bold enough?

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which otherwise reads... why have you abandoned social democracy, you clod?

Good luck with getting that answered.
# posted by  snooo @ 10:59

 

Yes good luck with that one, I’d like to see if they could even answer that.
# posted by  Thesisville @ 18:55

 

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