10 July

Margaret Thatcher famously said "there is no such thing as society". I agree with her, but for different reasons. Maggie didn't think society existed at all - she thought it was a fiction. She was like Ayn Rand and the libertarians. I think it exists, but that it isn't a separate thing to the individuals within it. It's those same individuals acting in different, collective, ways. It's another 'we' problem - we talk about 'society' a lot, but where is it? Can you touch it? See it?