by David Boyle | 10 November 2017 | Blog, Modern Folk Tales
“It takes a civilized man,” said George Bernard Shaw, “to be deeply moved by statistics.” The whole edifice of Fabian statistics, outcomes, learnings, KPIs and so on were built on those foundations. Shaw was not wrong. You do need an imagination to imagine the picture...
by David Boyle | 25 September 2017 | Blog
I helped launch my new pamphlet The_Grammar_of_Change, commissioned from New Weather by the Local Trust, the agency which is distributing £1m each over the years to 150 of the most impoverished estates. One of the issues that came up at the launch was the question of...
by David Boyle | 15 August 2017 | Blog
There is a truism about fish, who are said not to wonder overmuch about the nature of the water they are in, simply because they are swimming in it. I have to say I find that pretty unlikely. There would be many other reasons why they might not think about it –...
by David Boyle | 24 July 2017 | Blog
I have been reading Robert Hutchison’s excellent pamphlet on rapid transition – though it does not use that phrase – which includes a hopeful idea: that there is no limit to human empathy. In the end, as he explains, there is a race going on between...
by David Boyle | 3 June 2017 | Blog
This is the first of a series of contributions which New Weather is setting out before the last week of the general election, about what has been glaringly missing from the campaign. There is clearly something about airlines which, beyond the other business sectors,...
