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15 Dec 2009
Teaching philosophy in primary schools is viewed by some as one thing too many or an unnecessary luxury, yet it seems to me that the disciplines such as rational and critical thought, learned through the practice of philosophy, can provide an important foundation on which a child can build throughout his or her school career. These are skills that will enable a child to more easily access the rest of the curriculum – to take full advantage of the learning opportunities provided in other subjects.
Matthew Taylor
The RSA design team has been undertaking a project with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) exploring how the police can be better at engaging and satisfying the public. Yesterday we held an event to discuss the research emerging from the project, much of it generated by work on the ground in Peterborough (this is an early example of our broader collaboration with the city).
14 Dec 2009
I was going to post about my former boss’s interview with Fern Britton. Tony Blair said that even if had not thought there were WMD he would still have tried to make a case for regime change in Iraq. Whatever we may think of this opinion, it is simply wrong to claim, as many commentators seem to, that this is the same as saying ‘I had decided to invade and made up the WMD threat as a pretext’. That is like saying there is no difference between these two statements: ‘I didn’t rate our office junior and wanted to get rid of him’ and ‘I fabricated the evidence that the office junior raided the petty cash’.
11 Dec 2009
Jonathan Rowson
With the world's attention beginning to focus on the Climate Change talks in Copenhagen, I felt this might be a good moment to ask what sense, if any, it makes to think of the 'world community' as a community, and asking this question with the aid of the 'Global Consciousness Project' seemed to be the least boring approach.
So here I am, stuck in Stockholm airport. The plane from Heathrow is already three hours late leaving the UK and the fog is closing in. I suspect I may be here for the night. British Airways doesn't have a desk but shares an agent with several other airlines. Not surprisingly the agent's staff are completely uninterested in our plight, so we returning Brits will have to fend for ourselves.
10 Dec 2009
I've done my Stockholm gig. I guess it went OK, given that I'm suffering from man flu and I wasn't really sure what the audience wanted. I'm not sure whether it is a really high powered conference and it has been an honour to speak or whether it's just average and I've been a mug not to charge a fee. After a couple of glasses of wine at the Winter Palace I'm sure I'll decide it's the former.
Study for Longing/Seeing by Kerstin Ergenzinger from RSA Arts & Ecology on Vimeo.
09 Dec 2009
As we all await Mr Darling’s action-packed pre-budget report the focus is on cuts and taxes. Depending on their political orientation and the briefing they have received, newspapers can choose whether to highlight an attack on city bonuses, constraints on public spending or general increases in taxation.
08 Dec 2009
The Young Foundation’s report ‘Sinking not swimming: Understanding Britain’s Unmet Needs’ is an important contribution to public policy debate. This is how YF Director (and my former colleague) Geoff Mulgan, sums up the report in today’s Times:
07 Dec 2009
Saturday's The Wave demo saw crowds of up to 50,000 people coming out onto the streets to demand a result from governments on climate change at Copenhagen. That's not a shabby number, and the organisers deserve praise for getting people out onto the streets in a season which has been unbelievably filthy.
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