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Housing for the poor was a thriving part of the voluntary sector in the nineteenth century, providing thousands of homes through hundreds of societies without subsidy. It was undermined by state action which has effectively driven other providers from the field.

Bob Holman gave up a comfortable middle‐class life to run community projects in poor areas, first in Bath and then Easterhouse. The neighbourhood groups he has established show the benefits of empowering people to act as free agents. State funding for such groups would turn them into bureaucracies, foster dependence on the political process and destroy the good work they are doing.

Did anything come out of Rio Earth Summit? Robert Whelan, of the Committee on Population and the Economy, claims that it produced a farrago of nonsense.

How serious is the AIDS crisis? Robert Whelan argues that the AIDS pressure group has succeeded in obtaining more than its fair share of research funds at the expense of equally serious illnesses.

Does the Royal Shakespeare Company require subsidies from the taxpayer? Robert Whelan, a former actor with the RSC, argues that the RSC could survive without subsidy by putting on popular plays and not indulging the vanity of directors.

Are the Greens right to oppose economic growth? Robert Whelan, of the Committee on Population and the Economy, argues that the British Green party lacks an understanding of economic development.