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Asking the right question: prospects for a people-powered NHS?

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17 Mar 2015

Joanna Massie

What prospects do we have for making health people-powered? Joanna Massie blogs about a recent Fellow discussion exploring this.
Using heritage to realise the benefits of devolution

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16 Mar 2015

Jonathan Schifferes

As cities develop their own strategies, local history will prove a valuable USP.
The Big Idea: Pakistan Calling

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16 Mar 2015

Anwar Akhtar FRSA

Through a series of fascinating short films about life Pakistan, Pakistan Calling explores and challenges cultural stereotypes. Anwar Akhtar FRSA reports on its progress.
Three reasons why the doomsayers are wrong about self-employment

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13 Mar 2015

Benedict Dellot

This week, the Bank of England confirmed what the RSA argues time and again: that most of the self-employed have made a positive choice to work for themselves
Giving educators the space to create

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13 Mar 2015

Tom Gilliford

Wednesday evening saw David Laws, Tristram Hunt and Nicky Morgan go head to head at the TES's Education Hustings. Tom Gilliford gives his run down of of what each had do say for themselves, and what this might mean for the future of education.
Can we create a safer city together?

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13 Mar 2015

Anthony Painter

The RSA has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Police to provide insight into how the police can work more effectively with others to ensure a safe and energetic global city. Here we analyse at an early stage how policing and other public services might have to change as austerity and wider changes bite.
Obama, the future and conservative values

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09 Mar 2015

Anthony Painter

Anthony Painter discusses a remarkable speech in Selma by Barack Obama and how it relates to current debates on conservative values within British politics.
Sexism on International Women's Day

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08 Mar 2015

Natalie Nicholles

What are growing trends we should be pushing on International Women's Day, and beyond?
Austerity has failed in Europe - but there is a bright side

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05 Mar 2015

Maximilian Yoshioka

Austerity's brutal dismantling of the welfare system in Spain and Greece has resulted in a proliferation of grassroots movements that touch interestingly upon the RSA’s own work on public services & communities and the Power to Create.
Escape to the country: rural city growth

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05 Mar 2015

Joanna Massie

Our City Growth report outlined how the largest 15 metro regions can be empowered; but what does this mean for areas that aren't so populated?