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Put that in your pipe...

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01 May 2008

Matthew Taylor

Is the Government really intent on reclassifying cannabis despite the advice of drug experts, police officers and the evidence that cannabis use is becoming less popular among young people?

Cutting up

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30 Apr 2008

Matthew Taylor

Piping up

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30 Apr 2008

Matthew Taylor

This week in Fellowship...

RSA Networks Exchange last night

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29 Apr 2008

Matthew Taylor

Now, thanks to the miracles of modern technology I’m able to continue posting my blog while out of the office. But I wanted to publicly thank Laura Bunt in particular from the Networks team, who did such a stunning job of organizing last night’s event.

Come online everybody!

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28 Apr 2008

Matthew Taylor

In a world that is increasingly digitally enhanced, how do we ensure that people can be included in the conversations that are happening on the internet – or even at a more basic level can take advantage of cheaper car insurance (which seem to be available through internet only deals)?

Money, money, money

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25 Apr 2008

Matthew Taylor

Investment and the sub-prime crisis aren’t normally topics for my blog – but recently two pieces, one in the Times and the other in the FT caught my eye.

Mohamed, Osama and Steve

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25 Apr 2008

Matthew Taylor

It has been a mammoth week of lectures

We do

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24 Apr 2008

Matthew Taylor

Last night we had a great lecture from Charlie Leadbeater discussing his new book We Think. The book has got interest and praise, not just for its content but also how it was written – collaboratively, via Charlie’s website. It may well be the first wiki-book

Food fight

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23 Apr 2008

Matthew Taylor

We are facing a ‘silent tsunami’, according to the head of the World Food Programme, the Economist, and many of the broadsheets this morning. Indeed, our most recent RSA Journal featured an article on food security which argued that we need a new politics of food in Britain. One which ‘integrates individual behaviour within the planet’s needs and capacities.’