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Three principles for tackling regional inequality

7 Jan 2020 Ed Cox

With both of the main Westminster parties recognising the need for a new focus on England’s regions, it is important they learn from past mistakes and adopt a long-term, principled approach.

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How to break your fashion addiction

27 Dec 2019 Josie Warden

What drives us to buy fashion? And in a climate crisis, how do we tackle our consumption guilt and change our relationship with what we wear?

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Northerners don’t think they get a fair deal from the government

10 Dec 2019 Ed Cox

Could regional inequality decide the General Election? The results of our new poll of Northern voters.

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Reflections on a People’s Assembly: advice for organisers

29 Oct 2019 Clare Gage FRSA

Think about how you want to have influence, and structure your discussion around that.

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4 social care challenges we can tackle with self-management

9 Oct 2019 Ruth Hannan

The social care system isn’t working. The public doesn’t understand it. It’s bureaucratic. It’s placing a huge burden on workers. We can start to address these problems by trusting care workers.

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How can we make the growth of citizens assemblies last?

13 Sep 2019 Riley Thorold

Many new citizens’ assemblies have been announced in the UK and across Europe. Why has this happened? And how can we make this ‘deliberative moment’ last?

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6 principles for effective social action in schools

2 Sep 2019 Hannah Breeze

What we learned from working in primary schools.

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Empowering young people to create a democracy for the future

19 Aug 2019 Paul Ingram FRSA

The RSA Tees Valley Fellows’ Network on their local work on democracy in schools.

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Democracy versus the climate?

20 Jun 2019 Riley Thorold

We need more democracy, not less, to fight climate change. Riley Thorold on the tension between the environment and democracy and plans to hold a citizens’ assembly on climate change in the UK.

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How could a basic income change people’s lives?

16 May 2019 Ian Burbidge, Aima Ahmed

Three examples of how a basic income could help people take control of their futures.