During debate on the Education Bill on 8 February 2011, Mr Blunkett described the government's plans as a mixture of "incrementalism, contradiction, historic misinterpretation and downright old-fashioned Conservatism".

BBC: Education Bill part two

Maybe we need to learn to adopt a dose of old-fashioned conservatism, which means conserving what is good and what must last, and accepting and dealing with stern realities rather than denying and running from them.

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So compassionate conservatism raises anew that age-old American question: where to draw the line between church and state?

ECONOMIST: Preparing America for compassionate conservatism

The style for DC is represented by the constant balance that must be maintained between its local and federal identities, between radicalism and conservatism, between the new and the old.

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They are reaching out beyond the old divides of Israeli religiousness and secularism, diasporic Orthodoxy, Conservatism and Reform.

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