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What If
For our 21st Birthday Community Links invited some of our friends to consider their visions for our communities in the 21st Century. The resulting collection of essays ‘What If..?’ became a best seller in which leading writers, thinkers and politicians tackled issues which are increasingly relevant to everyone in Britain but which are rarely openly discussed in Westminster – poverty, deprivation, the potential for regeneration and the future for our children. What If…? is a manifesto for the millennium, not a whinge about how bad things are, but how good they would be if… The book has now sold out its print run but we are making the content available here, for free download in Acrobat PDF format.
Contents
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| 00 | David Robinson | Introduction |
| 01 | Will Hutton | The Economics of Poverty |
| 02 | Bob Holman | A Vision from Easterhouse |
| 03 | Will Hobson | Newham in Facts and Stats |
| 04 | David Robinson | Accounting for the Uncounted |
| 05 | Andrew O’Hagan | The British Male at Sixteen |
| 06 | Matthew Smerdon | As easy as 1»2»3 |
| 07 | Gordon Brown | In Conversation with Alya Din |
| 08 | Louse France | Breaking the Silence |
| 09 | Stephen Jacobs | In Celebration of Ordinariness |
| 10 | Jane Tewson | A New Sort of Charity |
| 11 | Daniel Silverstone | Revving-Up the Voluntary Sector |
| 12 | Steve Hilton | Doing Good Business |
| 13 | David Robinson | Beyond the Poverty Trap |
| 14 | David Grayson | In Search of Community UK plc |
| 15 | William Boyd | Newham: an A–Z |