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Blog: Safer together - Martin Hewitt on Policing a global city in 2020

Blog

15 Oct 2015

Martin Hewitt

Martin Hewitt discusses the findings of the RSA report: Safer together: Policing a global city in 2020, and reflects on how the Met may have to a fundamentally different approach.
Blog: A shared mission for the police, public services and the people

Blog

14 Oct 2015

Anthony Painter

Our new report makes a simple case: London needs a ‘shared mission’ to ensure the safety of its citizens and those who visit or work here. This shared mission challenges the Met, its partners and, also, the public.
Can we create a safer city together?

Blog

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.
Politics can’t be improved until we give people the ‘Power to Create’

Blog

25 Feb 2015

In an article first published in 'May2015', Adam Lent argues the solution to our political and social problems can only be found by unleashing the creativity of the stifled 75 per cent.
What is the point of an MP?

Blog

24 Feb 2015

Anthony Painter

The popular media narrative has been against the professionalisation of politics. Actually, this is precisely wrong. We need a more professional politics.
The need for new ideas - even if they seem crazy at first

Blog

26 Jan 2015

Anthony Painter

There is something that is quite corrosive in our public life. It is our reaction to new ideas.
Political gridlock may be coming – and it may be no bad thing

Blog

19 Jan 2015

Anthony Painter

Looking at the various election predications in terms of seats, it is entirely possible that no party will be able secure a decent majority - even in Coalition.
Who is to blame for NHS overload? We all are.

Blog

07 Jan 2015

Anthony Painter

The political debate about the extreme pressure the NHS is currently under is barely serious.
The real issues we face will be completely ignored in the election

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05 Jan 2015

Anthony Painter

So the election campaign has started. It’s all about fundamental choices, roads ahead, supposed disaster for the economy if one side wins, supposed disaster for the NHS if the other side wins.
‘The vow’ to Scotland: fudge, honour or renege?

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19 Sep 2014

Anthony Painter

This has been Scotland’s debate. It has been both inspiring but sometimes unnerving. Democratic passions awaken the best and some of the worst in us. We have seen it all: excitement, some intimidation, awakening. The groups that come out of this pretty badly are the political leaders: not just in Westminster but in Holyrood also.