List of The last word Archive

The end of men

Blog

22 Oct 2012

Benedict Dellot

This guest blog is from RSA Intern Temitayo Ogunye, who is working the RSA Education Team on developing enrichment opportunities for RSA Academies.

Keep calm. Prepare for change.

Blog

18 Oct 2012

Matthew Taylor

Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking for sympathy, but it is getting to the stage that the only time I get to write a blog is when I am on a train somewhere. Having said which writing a post can be a good way of clarifying my thoughts....

Doughnut Economics

Video

18 Oct 2012

Kate Raworth is a senior researcher at Oxfam and former co-author of the UN's annual Human Development Report

(Un)employment, growth and partnerships – a month in the life of the Social Entrepreneurs Network

Blog

17 Oct 2012

It has been a busy start to the ‘new school term’ (does that feeling ever go?) at the RSA and in the Fellowship Programme team.

Inter-city thoughts

Blog

16 Oct 2012

Matthew Taylor

I'm on my way to Coventry to speak at a summit of local authority senior executives. Reflecting, depending on your point of view, either my lack of scholarly rigour or my commitment to intellectual experimentation, whenever I do substantial gigs like these I try to develop different dimensions to my argument.

The End of Men: And the rise of women

Video

16 Oct 2012

Hanna Rosin is senior editor at the Atlantic Magazine

The everyday lives of recovering heroin users

Blog

16 Oct 2012

It is not often that service users and practitioners alike are scrambling for copies of the same academic publication.  Professor Joanne Neale, Dr. Sarah Nettleton and Dr. Lucy Pickering have produced a piece of work that captures the ‘The everyday lives of recovering heroin users’ through interviews with forty men and women in varying stages of recovery from heroin use.  The book illuminates the mental, physical and emotional struggles and transformations someone might go through in recovery using the words of those with first-hand experience.

Excuses, excuses

Blog

13 Oct 2012

Matthew Taylor

The foundation of evil often lies in excuses. People rarely behave badly proudly, more often visible wrongness rests on a sunken floor of self justification.

Oldham council's battle against the cuts: A new 'co-operative deal'

Press release

11 Oct 2012

A new virtual 'Co-operative Academy' which supports the design and implementation of Oldham City Council's emerging co-operative model is amongst one of several recommendations made by an RSA report.