Latest thinking

Luke Johnson to be appointed the next Chair of the RSA

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04 Sep 2008

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The fickle finger of fate?

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03 Sep 2008

Matthew Taylor

Slightly random blogging I’m afraid. My butterfly mind needs to land on some new themes before I get going. But some nuggets to keep my reader (hi Mum!) happy

August showers bring...

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02 Sep 2008

Matthew Taylor

Back at work after a very soggy August in Devon. It was my idea for our holiday group to stay in the UK and every cloudy, rainy, windswept morning I would come down to a kitchen full of wet clothes and recriminatory looks.

Feedback on the New Enlightenment

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31 Jul 2008

Matthew Taylor

One great thing about my job is the feedback I get from Fellows. I particularly enjoy being challenged. One of my fiercest critics has been Australian Fellow John Montgomery who thinks I am a soft headed, jargon spouting, leftie.

The path to civic innovation

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30 Jul 2008

Matthew Taylor

I have been spending time recently with some amazing social innovators. Last week it was Oli Barrett, creator of the Catalyst Awards among many other things. In just a half hour conversation Oli came up with some great ideas for Fellowship engagement.

The era of investor activism

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28 Jul 2008

Matthew Taylor

We are entering an era of investor activism. There are at least three broad shifts that will compel investors to enter the market as more than merely consumers.

The end of the corporation

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24 Jul 2008

Matthew Taylor

The idea that the multinational corporation would one day replace the state as the focus of global power was always a silly one.

Do school children and students know how to research?

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23 Jul 2008

Matthew Taylor

This was the question raised last night at the RSA, where Encyclopaedia Britannica were sponsoring a talk. Their Managing Director, Ian Grant, emphasised the difference between ‘search’ (a list of results) and ‘research’ (a broader and deeper process of inquiry).

Getting regulation right

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23 Jul 2008

Matthew Taylor

A final point gives me a chance to link this discussion to Daniel Finkelstein who is writing some fantastic stuff at the moment. Like our greatest ever modern political essayist, George Orwell, Danny is at his best criticising his own side.