Kittens are EVIL

“Kittens are EVIL” is a slim volume of published papers and essays from Newcastle University’s original “Little Heresies” speaker series on the future of public services.  …. “what appear to be well-intentioned policies not only create perverse incentives but also lasting damage to the social fabric. ”  There is a distinct smell of anti-New Public Management rhetoric in the publication and a few of the papers concern only (and require an understanding of) British public policy.  But the principle of challenging sacred cows is welcome and that certainly applies to the field of social innovation and social impact.  On which subject the www.kittensareevil.org website is a good place to start: “by prefixing ‘social’ to enterprise, investment and innovation we seemingly obviate any need for a critical analysis of whether or not these enterprises, investments and innovations are social, and therefore, presumably, good.”  Delicious.

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