Matthew Taylor's blog
Blog URL http://www.matthewtaylorsblog.com/
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags current affairs, politics, RSA
Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA,covers a wide range of issues in his daily blog
Latest Blog Posts
- Zizek, Hayek – and Cowell on Nov 25, 2009 in The RSA Friedrich von Hayek Michael Young Simon Cowell Slavoj Zizek X Factor
‘Zizek is untwitterable’ was a pithy tweet on last night’s RSA lecture by one of the world’s foremost philosophers. The great man’s lecture was dense, edgy and erudite. Like a good wine its after taste is more affecting than the first impre...
- Enterprise for a better world on Nov 24, 2009 in Uncategorized 2020 Public Services Trust enterprise purposive innovation Tom Riordan
New Labour politicians used to say their core belief was that economic dynamism and social justice go forward hand in hand. It is simplistic but a good corrective to the Thatcherite view that all social spending was a drag on economic prosperity. But...
- Personal budgets – an update on Nov 23, 2009 in Public policy The RSA 2020 Public Services Trust personal budgets Peter Gilroy Richard Humphries social care
I have written before in this blog about personal budgets for social care. This afternoon, at a 2020 Public Services Trust event here at the RSA, we had an interesting presentation on this issue from Richard Humphries, Senior Fellow at the King’s F...
- Encountering the Cabinet getting out of Westminster on Nov 20, 2009 in Public policy Cabinet Gordon Brown
On my way to Nottingham for a conference on emotional well being, I find myself sharing the train with half the Cabinet. Given how London-centric most of the national media are, many people won’t know that one of Gordon Brown’s political innova...
- SIT STOP – small, but perfectly formed on Nov 19, 2009 in The RSA RSA Fellowship SIT STOP
As you may be aware from previous blogs, we have been having a lot of discussion of late – with staff, with Fellows, and externally – about what constitutes a Fellows’ project. Well, here is a small but perfectly formed example sent to me by...
- The boy who proved that altruism exists on Nov 18, 2009 in Social brain The RSA
Judging by the absence of comment on yesterday’s post (not even from my dear, sweet, remarkably young looking mum), my reader isn’t as interested in my crowded speaking itinerary as I fondly hoped. In the face of such indifference it’s no good...
- Seven days of speeches make one weak on Nov 17, 2009 in The RSA Bishop of Salisbury public speaking RSA
I wrote yesterday about my eight speeches this week. Actually, to be fair, it is six but I have been prone to exaggeration from the day I was born. Naturally this gets me thinking about the very act of speaking in public. As with most social phenom...
