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Riding the elephant towards empathy: an RSA Animate
In this RSA Animate short film, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the RSA (whose blog is here: https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/matthew-taylor-blog) gives a really...
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Eating the cabin boy: clues to Brexit from the mists of the Noughties
The period around a decade ago, at any given time, is often lost in a Bermuda Triangle of cultural amnesia. We remember very recent events; and we enjoy revisiting events further back, the tracks...
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Johnny behavioural science mnemonics: EAST and MINDSPACE
Forgettable It’s too late to improve Keanu Reaves’ acting, but there’s still hope for using behavioural economics to improve other outcomes. Here are a couple of ‘what to remember about behavioural...
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How To Reform Capitalism
The School of Life essay How To Reform Capitalism, (available at The School of Life shop), is worth a read for anyone engaged in the commercial world but who wonders about its values. Most of us then....
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Happy new year from Shore
I’m going to do more on the blog this year, he promises again – but this time he means it. But just to put 2017 behind us, I hereby recycle the Christmas tree of The Onion’s inestimable review of the...
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“From Sappho to Suffrage: Women Who Dared”– and the women standing up in 2018
No one likes an uxorious man – but as my wife Prof. Senia Paseta is the curator of a new (and not untopical) exhibition about pioneering women, a plug seems very much in order. The exhibition opened...
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Long hot summer of Brexit may be about to get hotter
Valderrama: he was the future once Never make predictions, they say, especially on blogs that people might read after the prediction has already died a death. But after England lose 17-16 to Colombia...
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2019: sunlit lowlands
Reasons to be cheerful – Portstewart Strand Christmas has been a welcome break from my addiction to Brexit podcasts. Perhaps for that reason I’m seeing things less feverishly than a few weeks ago. No...
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Tell me now how do I feel?
Blue Monday It’s ‘Blue Monday’ today but worry not – McDonald’s are giving away free burgers this week and the European VP of Twitter Bruce Daisley has taken the opportunity to tout his book The Joy of...
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National Crisis: a rousing motivational film for all Britons
Hard to believe it’s 25 years since this film, reserved for times of national crisis, was first shown on The Day Today. Click on the link here to watch, 2 mins or so: The Day Today – Film Reserved For...
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