Why are large companies trying to distance themselves so much from their customers? Listen, starting at 20 minutes 28 seconds: the BBC World Business Report explores the Absent Corporation Our second ideas pamphlet, thanks to the Polden Puckham Foundation, identifies...
Zero Carbon Britain: Making it Happen - charts a huge range of positive opportunities for innovation, for both Britain’s economy and for its people. Paul Allen explains how the zero carbon transition offers a wide range of co-benefits including; better housing,...
Two ongoing stories demonstrate with pellucid clarity how populism gains first a foothold and then strength against a political elite which seems to have lost its way entirely. First is the new business rates. Due to start in April, the new rates are widely predicted...
This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
