RSA Conversations

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.  Is Britain really the butler to the world's kleptocrats, criminals and tax dodgers? Is this country, famed for its supposed sense of fair play, really o...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.  In our age of the internet and social media, the pandemic has revealed the importance of accurate science reporting. Fiona Fox, chief executive of the S...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.  Noga Arikha has long been fascinated with mental illness and the way we understand identity. Researching her new book, the philosopher and historian spe...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. It seems obvious that pleasure leads to happiness. So why are we attracted to gruelling challenges that at times can truly hurt, from writing a novel to...

In this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. The final guest in the series is Professor David Pendleton, one of the world’s leading experts on the subject. His 'Primary Colours' model of leadership, has been highly influential in government in the UK and beyond.  David Pendleton is a Prof...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. With Russia facing crippling sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine and with many businesses, from McDonald's to Apple, pulling out of the country, does t...

Special series: Lessons in Leadership In this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. In this fifth episode, Justin meets Jo Dibb , the headteacher whose school inspired Michelle Obama.  In 2009, just two months after she had become first lady, Michelle Obama paid a visit to Elizabeth Garret...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Matthew is joined by the author of 'Sweat: a History of Exercise', Bill Hayes. Together Matthew and Bill take a jog through history to find out more abou...

Special series: Lessons in Leadership In this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. In this fourth episode, Justin meets Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice – one of the UK’s biggest voluntary organisations with almost 30,000 staff and volunteers providing essential adv...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Our emotions drive much of our behaviour. But do we have the same emotions as people who lived three hundred years ago or who live three hundred miles aw...

Special series: Lessons in Leadership In this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. In this third episode, Justin speaks to Sir Michael Barber , an educationalist and author who was knighted in 2005 for his contributions to improving government.  His latest book is ' Accomplishment: How to...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. In early 2020, junior doctor Roopa Farooki lost her sister to cancer. Weeks later she found herself working on the frontline of the pandemic, covering th...

Special series: Lessons in Leadership In this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. In this second episode, Justin speaks to Pia Sinha , Director of Women at Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service  and former governor of HMP Liverpool. The pandemic has brought home to all of us the imp...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. This week Matthew is joined by the American writer, Siri Hustvedt, described as “a 21st-century Virginia Woolf”, to discuss family dynamics, Western miso...

Special series: Lessons in Leadership The pandemic has brought home to all of us the importance of the public services we sometimes take for granted. Not just the NHS but schools, local councils, the police and the prison service have all faced huge challenges keeping the show on the road. Clear leadership has been crucial to this task. Now more than ever our public services need great head teache...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He is also Director for th...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Maxine Bédat is the director of New Standard Institute , a non-profit working with scientists and citizens to make the fashion industry more sustainable,...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. In the final edition of Bridges to the Future for 2021, Matthew picks out his favourite conversations from the last year. Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish jou...

In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Dr. Gwen Adshead is one of the UK’s leading forensic psychiatrists and psychotherapists and the co-author of The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty...

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses.   In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Mary Ann Sieghart is an author, journalist, radio presenter and former assistant...

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses.   In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Nathan Law became Hong Kong's youngest ever lawmaker in 2016 but was later depos...

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses.   In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Alison Goldsworthy has spent over 20 years active in politics and campaigning. A...

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses.   In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Azeem Azhar is an innovator, public intellectual and author of Exponential: How...

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses.   In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Will Storr is the author of five books, including the novel The Hunger and The H...

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses.   In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Adrian Wooldridge is the political editor at The Economist and author of The Ari...