Mark Pack

Here’s your starter for ten as we experiment with a new Saturday slot posing a view for debate:

Disdainful comments about political motivations and ideological fixations abound. But what Britain needs is more ideology, not less. Because it’s having a core of ideological beliefs that gives those in power a plan for action that is more than simply responding day to day to events or taking on board completely the agendas, assumptions and perspectives of those running the machinery of government. Ideology provides a model that can make different ideas hang together in a coherent whole that is more than the sum of its parts and is more than simply accepting the world as bureaucracy currently shapes it.

Agree? Disagree? Comment away…