Good Local Economics

CLES Summit 2013: Time for a ‘coalition of belligerents’

This year’s CLES summit, held in Manchester the day after the spending review, was filled with calls for anger and protest, for more belligerence from local councils, and for moving on from the past to forge a new way forward for local areas.

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Libraries as ‘public living rooms’

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Scottish forestry still in hands of an elite

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What’s the place-based social value of rural social enterprise?

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The key to localism is to inspire the ladies in green quilted jackets

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Look to Europe for how to proactively manage our declining cities

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Indignation is not enough! Time for action to address social and economic inequality

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Building possibility: A new deal between community and state

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Playing into the populists’ hands

Those of us opposed to the coalition’s spending cuts in the poorest parts of the country need to be careful about the language we use when describing their impact.