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02 Feb 2011
The news that Nat Wei, the Government’s advisor on the Big Society, wants to spend more time in paid work and with his friends and family, and less time volunteering as the Big Society Tsar has lead to much gloating.
01 Feb 2011
Matthew Taylor
I don’t want to seem obsessed (or obsessive) so this may be the last blog for a while directly addressing the Big Society. But I couldn’t resist one more comment. Partly, this is because I have read two very thought provoking pieces recently, which are worth considering together.
31 Jan 2011
Over the years my blog readers have often come to my rescue when I have needed clarity and ideas. That time has come again. I have been tentatively commissioned to write a magazine article about fatherhood.
29 Jan 2011
Although everything I saw was slightly obscured by a film of snot (so far, for me, 2011 has involved only three days free of colds) yesterday was a fascinating day. It gave me a new perspective on the politics of the Big Society.
27 Jan 2011
Once in a while, there is a meeting at work which feels really significant. This happened yesterday. The focus was RSA Catalyst our fund to support Fellows’ projects.
25 Jan 2011
I attended a great event last night jointly hosted by the RSA North East and the School of Design at Northumbria University. There is an exciting vision of a cultural partnership between the two organisations and over 150 Fellows and non Fellows turned up to hear what we had to say.
24 Jan 2011
The Times front page splash is ‘Big Society in crisis as economy weakens’. The article is a bit of a dog’s dinner conflating a number of different stories to suggest a build-up of pressure on David Cameron and his Government. But from what I can see running on Twitter (including among ‘the friends of the Big Society’), it feels like unless Number Ten moves quickly this might be a turning point against the credibility of the whole project.
21 Jan 2011
I promised a further update on the UK Baltic Nordic summit. But that was yesterday when it felt quite topical. Now, given Andy Coulson, Alan Johnson and Tony Blair, trying to interest news watchers in the summit is a bit like offering someone dining at The Ivy a plate of chips left over from last night take away.
20 Jan 2011
Vanity is a funny thing. There is a passage in ‘Swann in Love’ by Marcel Proust in which he describes how people can be vain in surprising ways: the maestro orchestral conductor doesn’t mind you criticising his recent concert performance but if you were to question his cooking or gardening he would take terrible offence. I guess it’s to do with how much security we feel in our talents. Perhaps we most need praise where we feel least self-assured.
19 Jan 2011
A couple of snippets following on from the lively debate about politicians and about David Cameron.
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