According to today’s Times, David Cameron’s advisors now favour a ‘small is beautiful’ approach to policy making. Rachel Sylvester, believes they are downplaying the phrase ‘Big Society.’ It is depressing, both that this public relations spin is newsworthy, and that these two concepts; the ‘Big Society’ and ‘small is beautiful’, are thought to differ.

The Big Society should be about nurturing Edmund Burke’s small platoons. The LGiU showed how councils could do this in our July 2010 report Small is Beautiful (hat tip E.F. Schumacher).