The British Prime Minister David Cameron promised to build a big society. Yet all his nation has seen is a big fire, as rioters set the cities alight. This exposes the Catch-22 of community-building policies.
The postwar expansion of government services wiped out much of civil society, particularly the self-governing mutual bodies which provided social and financial security at a local level.
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