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Governing for the long term?

Blog

20 Mar 2012

Matthew Taylor

Fairly regularly I receive interview requests from researchers who misguidedly think I have memories, views or ideas which can inform their work. It’s nice to feel needed so I try to be helpful, although I have started to draw the line at undergraduate or Masters dissertations about New Labour.  Sometimes my altruism is rewarded by learning from my interlocutors. So it was this morning when two nice chaps from the Institute for Government came to visit.

Occupy World Street: A global roadmap for economic and political reform

Video

19 Mar 2012

With Ross Jackson, Caroline Lucas MP and Craig Bennett

Leicester means more

Blog

15 Mar 2012

Matthew Taylor

The message of today’s post is that we shouldn't always assume a fit between a type of problem and a type of solution.

Britain Etc

Video

15 Mar 2012

Mark Easton is an award-winning journalist and BBC News home editor

What kind of teachers do we need?

Press release

15 Mar 2012

Teachers should be supported to think more creatively about deciding what to teach and be encouraged to collaborate more with parents and local organisations, according to a report published by the RSA.

RSA, TUC and CBI welcome Work and Pension Committee findings

Press release

15 Mar 2012

An on-going campaign by the RSA, TUC and CBI to lift key restrictions on the forthcoming National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has been recognised by the Work and Pensions Select Committee.

Not up to the job

Blog

14 Mar 2012

Matthew Taylor

Today’s figures suggest we might be approaching the point at which the current cycle of rising unemployment peaks. But this shouldn’t distract from the massive national and international jobs crisis. The 2.67 million people officially unemployed are only half the problem. If the number who would like a job but aren’t registered unemployed and the number who are working part time when they would like to be full time is added the figure is probably closer to seven million.

Looking Post Leveson: Press regulation in the 21st century

Video

14 Mar 2012

With Hugh Tomlinson QC, Guy Black and John Lloyd

Mindfulness as becoming the ‘whisperer’ of J. Haidt’s elephant

Blog

13 Mar 2012

I find the metaphor of an elephant and a rider, which has been used by psychologist Jonathan Haidt and embraced by Mathew Taylor, to be especially useful in thinking about the mind. This is how J. Haidt describes it: