Part fixing Britain's "broken society"

David Cameron is aiming to fix Britain’s broken society which in reality is a very difficult thing for the Conservatives to do.

Following the divisive row over Grammar Schools the party went through recently it’s no wonder Cameron is looking to avert any further fallout with the Conservative right over the suggestion of local lotteries for school places.

Iain Duncan Smith’s social justice committee is due to report soon spelling out the use of local lotteries. However the Tory leader has had to block the idea due to potential fallout with parts of his party.

Cameron has to leave out some of the suggestions to fix Britain’s broken society in order to avoid leading the broken Conservatives.

Reforms laid out for the shelf?

Gordon Brown today has announced a number of constitutional reforms. However he has said his proposals are not a final blue print but a route map.

A route map to where? Well Brown will want to gain as much political capital out of them as possible. These reforms are designed to show Brown isn’t a centralist but willing to give power back, then there will be reviews so we can be told about it all again and finally it will be shelved, never to be heard about again.

Why can't Europe just stay out?

The European commission is informally investigating the high definition DVD market as they are concerned movie studios committing to one format (HD-DVD or Blu-ray) is restricting competition.

Why should it matter if movie studios pick one format over the other? Surely the fact we have two rival formats competing with one another increases competition. Interfering with that will reduce it. Prices of Blu-ray players have already started to fall as they are so much more expensive than HD-DVD players.

Likewise if studios choose to only release movies on one format, that is their decision and they risk losing out by the number of movies they could have sold on both formats. They must of calculated that it is worth while choosing to release in only one format.

Let’s leave them to do battle until a winner (or dominate format) emerges. In the mean time, standard DVD will surfice, until the new format war drives down the price of HD.