A month after the looting riots that spread across England in
August, David Cameron was asked to explain his approach to fixing
what he had described as a sick and broken Britain. He summed it up
in two words – ‘tough love’.
This has echoes of the advice our late patron, Lord Sheppard,
used to give to editors of this magazine. Coincidentally a nuisance
to the government the last time it was led by a Conservative prime
minister, he regularly reminded us to ‘Criticise what …
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