The Scottish National Party has finally abandoned its ‘Named Person’ scheme, which would have appointed an official to track the treatment of each child independently…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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Last week, I found myself talking to one of the key experts in the UK on about community share offerings. He told me just how…
What If we Stopped Pretending? Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 8 September, 2019 The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to…
Luciana Berger MP’s decision to join the Liberal Democrats has the potential to change everything. And I am not just talking about the fortunes of one…
Rory Stewart discusses what’s wrong with British politics and how to put it right at a RADIX event during the Big Tent Festival of ideas
On 1 April 1977, a date I remember well, the proprietor of Hay Castle and the book town pioneer Richard Booth proclaimed himself king of…
So-called ‘sustainable development’… is meaningless drivel James Lovelock To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.Buckminster Fuller During the past…
This is ‘Co-production Week’. The word ‘co-production’ might sound like film industry slang for collaborative film making between two production companies – well, actually it is…
In this paper, competition lawyer Tim Cowen explains why effective competition policy forms an important part of our democratic governance, why current approaches are proving…
Some years ago, the American pastor Jim Wallis wrote a bestselling book about religion in American public life: God’s Politics – why the Right gets…
“Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.” Richard Nixon There doesn’t seem to be any…
In order to transform our cities to deliver individual and societal wellbeing within the context of low-carbon living and resource security, we must take into…