The Idea of Community. The Big Society is being promoted as the flagship government policy even though no-one seems to have the first idea what it means, argues Austin Williams, director of the Future Cities Project. Commentator, Simon Jenkins, writing in the Guardian has described it as 'incomprehensibly vague'. Government minister, Francis Maude ...

Observers on the UK government’s approach to its Muslim communities were left rather in the dark after the surprise results in May this year, writes Hisham A Hellyer. Traditionally, the Liberal Democrat Party has been rather supportive of Muslim community organisations, and has stood squarely behind them when the state was deemed to have encroached on civil liberties (a frequent ...