Big society tsar Lord Wei 'doesn't have enough time to perform role', by Polly Curtis

Irony much?

The man appointed by the prime minister to kickstart a revolution in citizen activism is to scale back his hours after discovering that working for free three days a week is incompatible with "having a life".

"Leave the libraries alone. You don’t understand their value." by Philip Pullman

This is as good a starting point as any. Philip Pullman with wit and passion laying out the case against small(-minded) government and showing why precisely it is that markets are necessary but not sufficient, and are capable at once of great good and tremendous harm. The article really is a must-read for all, but especially those libertarians and small-government conservatives who think that the state is a mostly malignant force.