List of The last word Archive

Does the British Establishment still exist?

Video

24 Oct 2013

Peter Hennessy is one of the UK’s leading contemporary historians.

My first Makespace

Blog

22 Oct 2013

Hilary Chittenden

Despite having been working on the RSA’s new project around Making for the last 6 months, running events to connect Makers from all levels such as the FutureMaker day back in June and our recent Maker Networking workshops, until last week I had never actually visited a real life ‘Makerspace’.

Tackling Homelessness – The Road to Emmaus

Video

22 Oct 2013

Selwyn Image CBE JP is founder and vice president, Emmaus UK.

'Can-do’: no substitute for strategy

Comment

22 Oct 2013

Frank Hore FRSA David Low FRSA

The NHS has got to be more focused on patient care. Teachers will have to try harder. Not long ago, town-hall budget cutbacks were not going to impact front-line services. And for years now the private sector has institutionalised ‘can-do’ as best practice: everyone’s got to accept greater responsibilities with fewer resources.

No, minister

Blog

22 Oct 2013

Matthew Taylor

I find myself unimpressed by a new Whitehall guide to better policy making….

The Big Idea: a network of godless congregations

Blog

21 Oct 2013

This is a guest blog from Sanderson Jones FRSA who along with Pippa Evans set up the Sunday Assembly. Sanderson blogs here about their plans for the next few months.

Finding out what Makers really want

Blog

21 Oct 2013

Nat Hunter

There's been widespread interest in new digital fabrication opportunities for quite a while now - and I'm not just talking about 3D printing a gun or 3D printing your face in chocolate. There are Hackspace, Makespaces, Techshops and Fablabs popping up all over the world, and books about the implications of what is being termed the next Industrial revolution.

How can we encourage the new wave of self-employed to take on their first worker?

Blog

20 Oct 2013

Benedict Dellot

The UK is experiencing nothing short of a boom in self-employment. 367,000 more people became sole traders in the period since 2008, bringing the total proportion of sole traders in the workforce to a record 15 per cent. Where once we were a nation of shopkeepers, now we are seemingly one of consultants, freelancers, entrepreneurs, online marketplace traders – and whatever else comes under the banner of self-employment.

Connecting the Fellowship: Steve Ralf

Fellowship news

18 Oct 2013

Steve Ralf FRSA is committed to helping people break the cycle of poverty in the developing world. Steve is looking for support via RSA crowdfunding for an inflatable cinema which will screen local and international documentaries covering educational themes, using entertainment to inspire change.