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28 Feb 2012
Matthew Taylor
It is difficult to imagine any headline causing as much delight as this in the Guardian yesterday; ‘Upper class people are more likely to behave selfishly studies suggest’ (perhaps if the Sun ran with ‘women with large breasts especially keen on casual sex, researchers prove’, or ‘Brussels bureaucrats admit baby-eating allegations’ in the Telegraph’) .
Jonathan Rowson
While preparing a funding application on a related subject, it felt serendipitous to hear ‘Start of the week’ on Radio Four last night by chance. A couple of quotes that were almost exactly what I was after:
27 Feb 2012
I have spent some of the last few days making a programme for Radio 4. We are exploring whether Britain could learn from the economic success of Germany.
As I argued in Transforming Behaviour Change (see 'attention' in chp 5) I think new technologies pose important questions about how we regulate our attention. However, I also think the issue is important enough to tread cautiously about one's claims....there may be complex things to understand that might be lost if we lash out too generically, without grounding our concerns in evidence, or (even) arguiing from our own personal experience.
26 Feb 2012
Benedict Dellot
Are we increasingly berating others to escape from the grim reality of an unjust social and economic system? A couple of recent events indicate that such a phenomenon may indeed be taking place.
23 Feb 2012
I wish I was back in Oxford. If you are struggling to work or play, and bored of email and twitter, perhaps you need a dose of some good heavy chat... in which case go to the live debate between Neoatheist icon Richard Dawkins and The Archbishop of Cantebury Rowan Williams, chaired by Philosopher Anthony Kenny.
22 Feb 2012
I was slightly shocked to learn that Facebook have banned photographs of women breastfeeding. I know it can't be easy controlling 845 million users, but this particular decision strikes me as wrong on a number of levels.
Appearing on Moral Maze (tonight at eight on Radio 4) I have noticed an inverse correlation between how well I perform and the strength of my opinions on the subject under discussion. So I may need to raise my game this evening as I am arguing in favour of making it easier for children from poor background to get into top universities than privileged children.
21 Feb 2012
Michelle who tweets as ms215 has kindly complimented me on my chairing of a session on social enterprise at the National Housing Federation's Leaders' Forum earlier today. I guess it's as true of 'a list' performers as of an 'f list' hired hand like me that we are sometimes at our best when otherwise rather morose. The platform and microphone offer an opportunity to burst briefly away from introspection and release pent up exuberance.
Alastair Campbell’s Panorama documentary on Britain’s Hidden Alcoholics was a refreshing attempt to draw attention to the complexity of our alcohol problem. The programme revealed the full range of alcohol consumption patterns, from ritualistic social drinking in working class pubs to professionals quaffing wine like it was water, often alone at home. Campbell also shared the story of his own battles with drink, and made passing references to some of the policies that influence the supply of alcohol.
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