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Adam Lent on Small, Powerful Businesses

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20 Nov 2014

Dr Adam Lent is director of the RSA's Action and Research Centre

The Power to...Moderate

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20 Nov 2014

Susie Pascoe

Doug and Trevor both like to go to the pub at the weekend. Doug tends to have a few pints over the course of the evening, catches up with friends, then calls it a night.

10PP - How to achieve a step change in the arts offer of schools

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19 Nov 2014

Matthew Taylor

It’s a funny old world. It’s already been a long week and I wasn’t really looking forward to chairing a round-table discussion on ‘Ensuring an entitlement to a cultural education for all in London’ at Whole Education’s annual conference.

Jos de Blok on Organizational Structures

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17 Nov 2014

Jos de Blok visits the RSA to receive the 2014 Albert Medal for his pioneering role as founder and CEO of Buurtzorg, and to show how the movement can now spread to the rest of the world.

Sir John Elvidge on Citizen Power

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13 Nov 2014

Sir John Elvidge, former Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government, visits the RSA to explore how the state can improve public services and wellbeing by harnessing the strengths of its citizens, and devolving power to communities.

The Big Idea: The times they are a changing

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10 Nov 2014

Jamie Cooke

It’s been a pretty exciting time to live in Scotland recently. The small matter of the referendum on independence and its implications have been debated to the smallest detail, but as a Scot living in Scotland the most exciting aspect for me was the vibrant discussion around politics, democracy, identity and representation which overtook the country.

The power to create power

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05 Nov 2014

Matthew Taylor

Since we started talking at the RSA about the Power to Create, I have been asked to apply the idea to a variety of subjects. The most recent is the energy sector….

NORTH: The Great Debate

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03 Nov 2014

Guest article by Kasper de Graaf FRSA, producer, NORTH, @kasperdegraaf

The art of storytelling

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31 Oct 2014

Georgina Chatfield

Thurston Hopkins died this week aged 101.  He was a photojournalist whose images captured British life and its humanity and inequalities in the 1950s.  They say a picture paints a thousand words.