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Cartoonist Jeremy Banx imagines what it takes to ‘commit’.

Too many skills go unseen, argues Patrina Law. A new RSA-backed blueprint shows how digital credentials can make invisible talents visible – and valuable

RSA Resident Historian Anton Howes reflects on how a competition to create a mechanical chimney cleaner helped to outlaw the use of child chimney sweeps across the rooftops of Britain.

Dev Sharma, food activist, former Youth MP and founding member of Bite Back 2030, tells us about his campaigns against food poverty

For Greg Jackson, Founder and CEO of Octopus, the energy transition feels so close he can almost touch it. The iconoclast entrepreneur invited the RSA into Octopus HQ in central London for an interview with writer and broadcaster Lucy Siegle. Their conversation spanned the power of electrification, UK energy chaos, why populists have a point on bills, and how to deal with oil executives planning for Armageddon.

Billie Carn, FRSA, tells the story of Ahmed Faid and Nii Lartey, two young Londoners who transformed the simple act of asking questions into a movement for authentic community connection – and created a formula for turning digital engagement into real-world impact

Once cheered, now booed, the fight to save our climate is at a crossroads. Climate activist Clover Hogan argues that the issue lies in who holds the power – and that real change depends on collective action, bold civic participation and challenging the elites who profit from delay. Only honesty can rebuild momentum.

In 2025, the life-size puppets of art project THE HERDS traversed the globe, revealing the fragility of our world – and the urgent need for actions to preserve it.

From memorial sculptures to planting schemes to ‘impossible’ structures, Nichola Wroe speaks to the seven newly appointed Royal Designers for Industry, each set to bring a unique perspective to the prestigious title.

Chair of the RSA’s Trustee Board Sir Loyd Grossman introduces the Journal’s ‘Action’ issue, which includes interviews with the latest Royal Designers for Industry, an investigation into future-thinking by Nick Foster RDI and an ‘In Conversation’ with Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy