It could reflect the new priorities for this century, like the well-being of children, or sustainable development - matters which were not priorities in the middle of last.Emphasis on responsibilitiesSo let me now turn to why we consider responsibilities to be so fundamental a part of our proposed reforms.Over the decades since the war there has been a gradual erosion of many of the informal social bonds that once held us together, the bonds of class, church, where w [read post]

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The emails contained information sent from Hunt’s advisors, Adam Smith and John Zeff, often referred to collectively as ‘JH’, to Michel, including details from a meeting between Hunt and David Cameron in July 2011 on proposed two phone hacking inquiries (which later merged to become the Leveson Inquiry) sent to Murdoch by Michel. [read post]