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Stoking the flames of renewal

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17 Oct 2011

Matthew Taylor

I hate Stoke on Trent. It is a place of pain, rain and misery. Before Fellows and friends from the Potteries denounce me, I should admit that my feelings are totally unreasonable and entirely based on having watched my beloved West Bromwich Albion get repeatedly beaten – usually in the bleak mid-winter - by their bogey team Stoke City.
Transforming Behaviour Change

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17 Oct 2011

Jonathan Rowson

An Astrologer once told me that I have an exalted sun in my house of enemies. This positive feature of my chart meant that bad feelings towards me are 'burnt up' by the heat of the sun, for which I am grateful. I have never really understood the basis on which astrology might conceivably make sense on even the most charitable interpretation, so I had to take his word for the rationale, but I appreciated the thought, which resonated with my experience.
tales of the strangely successful

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14 Oct 2011

Julian Thompson

So in a further bid to overcome my blogophobia, today I am going to take a different tack. Yesterday I got some ribbing from Matthew "blogatron" Taylor, saying that he was surprised my "day in the life" blog on Wednesday didn't detail my bowel movements alongside everything else. No time you see, Matthew.
Think big, think human capability

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14 Oct 2011

Matthew Taylor

It has been fascinating to read open letters from two former Number Ten advisers to Jeremy Heywood who is the new Cabinet Secretary and - as both Phil Collins and James Purnell suggest - effectively the head of the civil service.
Old and frail, young and amazing: the ingredients for innovation?

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13 Oct 2011

Matthew Taylor

Lots of explanations are being offered for the scandalous treatment of frail, mainly elderly, patients, which has been exposed by the Care Quality Commission. But whatever the deeper issues of ageism, organisational culture or bureaucratic neglect, the proximate cause is easier to identify: absence of voice; most of these patients were neither able to demand decent treatment themselves nor did they have friends or relatives to make this demand on their behalf.
Desperate times call for...

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12 Oct 2011

Matthew Taylor

The shocking unemployment statistics demand a proper response from our political class but will we see it?
A sign post not a satnav

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11 Oct 2011

Matthew Taylor

Around a year ago the RSA 2020 Public Services Commission published its final report. This morning what is now the RSA 2020 Public Services Hub published an update, exploring the Government’s reform programme looked at through the prism of the Commission’s recommendations.
It’s their party and I’ll sigh if I want to

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07 Oct 2011

Matthew Taylor

So, a few comments at the end of party conference season. What struck me was the contrast between the political gatherings and the country at large. Beyond the conference centres large parts of the nation seem consumed by gloom, anger and fear. Yet within the security cordons all the parties evinced a strange tranquillity.
The sky's the limit

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06 Oct 2011

Matthew Taylor

Of the people who once in a while kindly take the time to read my blog many, I know, aren't Fellows of the RSA. I rarely get as many comments on posts about the Society as I do commenting on, for example, public services or politics. But I want to ask you non-Fellows to stick with this post There is some stuff I want to share with you and I need your feedback. So, in advance, thank you.
Tonight’s the night

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05 Oct 2011

Matthew Taylor

A short post today as it’s a big day for all of us at the RSA. Tonight is the Society’s AGM. This is a chance to talk to Fellows about the year gone past and the period to come. But, arising from the RSA Governance review, it will also see a debate, voting and the final result of motions (both for and against Trustee recommendations).

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Desperate times call for...

A sign post not a satnav

It’s their party and I’ll sigh if I want to

The sky's the limit

Tonight’s the night

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