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Will Self on Mortality

Video

23 Jun 2014

Will Self, Stephen Cave and Joanna Cook ask whether it might be a good thing to make an awareness of death a more important part of our lives.

Let’s Talk About Death

Video

23 Jun 2014

With Will Self, Joanna Cook and Stephen Cave

How can English football’s wilful ignorance be cured?

Blog

21 Jun 2014

Anthony Painter

We need to stop caring about the World Cup. That’s right. We have to learn to treat it as an irrelevance. Every digital and hard copy of a football song that recounts ‘x years of hurt’ needs to be deleted or incinerated. The hurt that really counts is the fact that England have pursued football as an agricultural pursuit for too many decades to count. That is where our focus should be – how does England learn to play good football?

Oiling the wheels of community

Blog

17 Jun 2014

Gaia Marcus

Part 2 of my Five rules, Four principles, Three approaches, Two caveats and One request for social networks and community. 

Curiosity – Why Our Future Depends On It

Video

05 Jun 2014

Ian Leslie is an author

Massimo Vignelli: farewell to a master of everyday life

Blog

30 May 2014

Melanie Andrews

“I was always seeking to affect the lives of millions of people – not through politics or entertainment but through design. I strive to raise the bar, taking the common place and improving it”.

Messy morals

Blog

29 May 2014

Anthony Painter

David Marquand wants a new public philosophy. This philosophy will be based on ethics – a morality of social justice beyond the market. He sees that we are in a ‘moral crisis’. Markets, individualism and greed have taken over. The public good has been in retreat since Margaret Thatcher came to power.

The RSA Needs You!

Blog

28 May 2014

Vivs Long-Ferguson

Time passes quickly. Too Quickly.

The Self is Not an Illusion

Video

22 May 2014

Mary Midgley is a moral philosopher, Rob Newman is a writer