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Past RSA Journals Issue 02 | 2025

Window of opportunity

Rethinking mobility for the world of today – and tomorrow

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A portrait photo of Andy Haldane.
Andy Haldane
Former CEO

“For me, the very definition of a good society is one where everyone has the opportunity of, and hope for, improvement”

Featured articles

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Lead Feature

Changing tracks

Can railways reconnect the UK 200 years on?
Gareth Dennis 9 July 2025
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In conversation

Justine Greening

On business, social mobility and the power of place

Andy Haldane 9 July 2025
A 3D paper-cut illustration of the female gender symbol, featuring miniature city buildings, a bridge, trees, and winding roads on a blue background, symbolizing women’s roles in urban environments.
Feature

How feminist urban design is shaping a fairer Glasgow

Holly Bruce 9 July 2025
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Feature

Open Britain

Portraits of migration, belonging and hope

JJ Keith 9 July 2025
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Feature

What’s next for education?

Back to the drawing board

Andrew Jack 9 July 2025
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RSArchive

Stones, songs and secrets

Lithography, lore and the RSA’s secret history

Richard Hale 9 July 2025
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RSA NextGen

Adarsh Ramchurn

On empowering new voices

9 July 2025
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Comment

And it’s goodnight from him

Andy Haldane 9 July 2025
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Feature

UK Pavilion shines at Osaka Expo

Vicky Kington 9 July 2025
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Feature

Mixing Matters

Why diverse social networks fuel mobility

Marnie Freeman 9 July 2025
A close-up of a Snakes and Ladders game board shows a six-sided die, two colored game pieces, a snake, and a yellow ladder on numbered squares.
Feature

Myths of merit in an unequal society

When it comes to social mobility, we may be looking ahead – but are we hitting the mark?

Will Snell 9 July 2025
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Arts in the spotlight

Almost home

Incarcerated women curate a moving artistic statement

Fiona Curran 9 July 2025
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Last Word

Voice

It can be harder to stand up for yourself than for everyone else

Isaac Harvey 9 July 2025
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Network relaunched

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EXPLORE OUR PAST ISSUES

Trust

This Journal asks how we can restore trust in people, governments and institutions, with contributions from Professor Sir John Curtice, Rachel Botsman and Sumit Paul-Choudhury. Plus sculptor Beth Cavener’s staggering new exhibition.

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Courage to change our minds

RSA Journal issue 4 2024 discusses examples of ‘courageous communities’, from Lord John Bird’s experience of poverty and homelessness to Samantha Tauber’s attempt to build a better Earth from space.

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Combating the climate crisis

Climate change is the single most pressing existential crisis of our time, with its impact threatening all living things through flooding, food and water scarcity, extreme heat and wildfires, disease and economic insecurity.

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