List of The last word Archive

Solving the World’s Problems Differently

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28 Feb 2013

Don Tapscott is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media and the economic and social impact of technology.

Sharpening the care diamond

Blog

27 Feb 2013

Matthew Taylor

A society’s capacity for providing care (which, as one reader pointed out to me, is not the same as how much it cares) can be seen as a diamond comprising the market, the state, close family and the wider community.

The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

Video

27 Feb 2013

Dan Pink is the author of a number of provocative bestselling books on the changing world of work.

From Barn Owls to Boxing – Why Knowle West is the perfect host for Social Mirror

Blog

27 Feb 2013

Britain’s ‘Big Society’ is big indeed, according to government figures published earlier this month. The ‘Community Life Survey’ shows that 71% of people have volunteered during the past year, 74% gave to charities, and 79% say they have a strong sense of belonging to their neighbourhood. Across the nation, community groups offer a vast array of activities for local people to get involved in, often led by volunteers.

The Big Idea: Shout Out Suffolk

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25 Feb 2013

The Big Idea: giving young people in Suffolk their say about education in the county

A high employment-low wage society: a deal with the devil?

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22 Feb 2013

Benedict Dellot

And so the ‘productivity puzzle’ continues. Earlier this week the ONS published new figures showing that employment rose by 154,000 in the last quarter of 2012, taking up the total increase over the year as a whole to half a million. This is despite growing expectations that Britain will slide back into recession for the third time since the economic downturn. Indeed, the size of the economy in the last quarter was the same as it was a year beforehand. So what’s going on?

Improving Water Environments in Valentines Park

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22 Feb 2013

Hilary Chittenden

One of this year’s RSA Student Design Awards briefs, ‘Improve Water Environments’ calls for a design (or re-design) of a system, service, product or environment that tackles issues of water pollution. Improving our water environments has huge benefits for people, communities, wildlife and the economy, but it is a complex problem that is notoriously difficult to solve.

For goodness sake, just be selfish !

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21 Feb 2013

Matthew Taylor

Among the many great maxims of the 17th century French writer Francois de La Rochefoucauld is this: ‘Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue’. I lack Francois’ turn of phrase but here is my thought for the day:

Can partnerships help the RSA Fellowship go from good to great?

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21 Feb 2013

Adam Timmins

As Matthew Taylor noted in an earlier blog post “it is often said that the Fellowship has the potential to be the RSA’s greatest and most distinctive asset”. Two key questions for staff in the Fellowship department are: