New Arrival The Ownership Society

How Bourgeois Values Can Save Britain

Britain’s economic stagnation is often blamed for a widespread sense of national crisis. But might the dysfunction of modern British society have a deeper cause?

James Vitali argues that our economic woes are merely symptoms of an underlying ethical disorder. Our shared prosperity rests upon a common set of moral values: responsibility, duty and stewardship. Yet these values have been fatally undermined by both left and right. Their loss amounts to the destruction of Britain’s culture of ownership, a malaise which lies behind so many of Britain’s biggest challenges, from our crisis in national self-confidence to the overburdened British state. Only by restoring Britain’s ethical bedrock and building the property-owning democracy it requires can we prosper again.

The Ownership Society articulates a new conservatism that offers Britons an opportunity to take responsibility for