Getting a community right to buy right
This event hosted by UK think tank Power to Change will discuss how the government can successfully implement a Community Right to Buy that works for all people. Across the country communities are being shut out as key buildings are boarded, destroyed or sold to developers and turned into spaces that fail to serve the...
Collective Imagination Practices toolkit launch
This event hosted by UK think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation launches their Collective Imagination Practices toolkit. The times we are in require something radically different. So much is not working, so much is at stake. The systems we are in have embedded inequality, inequity, extraction, and oppression into our lives. We are witnessing rising...
The bully state: how Nanny is taking over Britain
This event hosted by UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute discusses burgeoning public health interventions and restrictions on individual freedoms. The Nanny State was coined in 1965 by Iain Macleod MP, and since that time, burgeoning public health interventions and restrictions on individual freedoms have continued flowing from Whitehall and into the pubs, shops,...
Heart of the matter: capacity, devolution and mission-led government
This event hosted by UK think tank Localis discusses their research into the future direction of place based public service reform. 'Heart of the matter – getting to grips with whole place transformation' is a research project which has sought, through extensive dialogue with public service directors and placemakers, and independent place research, to ascertain...
Heart of the matter – the foundational case for whole place transformation
This event hosted by UK think tank Localis will discuss the foundational case for whole place transformation. Driven by the dynamics of a new political cycle, we are on the edge of a major shift in how we shape our built environment, set our economic ambitions, create inclusive place ambitions and deliver local public services....
A build-up economic strategy
This event hosted by UK think tank the Resolution Foundation will discuss how much growth the Government’s reforms could deliver. The past 15 years of economic stagnation has caused families’ living standards to flatline, and the new Government is right to put ‘kickstarting’ growth at the heart of its agenda. Already, Ministers have set out...
Building blocks
This event hosted by UK think tank the Resolution Foundation will discuss whether the Government can hit its housing targets. The new Government has set an ambitious target of delivering 1.5 million new homes over a five-year period – at a rate that hasn’t been achieved since the 1960s – and has put planning reform...
Taxed into a corner?
This event hosted by UK think tank the Resolution Foundation will discuss the Chancellor’s options in the upcoming Budget. The Chancellor has set the date for the first Budget of Labour’s Government – 30th October – and has emphasised the stark fiscal difficulties facing the country, even if she goes ahead with the £23 billion a...
IEA in conversation with Charles Moore
This event hosted by UK think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs will feature Charles Moore in conversation with Tom Clougherty (IEA Executive Director). We are thrilled to welcome Charles Moore as a guest speaker for the next in our In Conversation series with senior figures across public life. This event will be taking place on...
Food for Thought with Professor Peter Hinton on education in sub-Saharan Africa
This event hosted by UK think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs discusses new models of quality education in sub-Sahara Africa. Drawing on DPhil research in 7 African cities, low-cost, non-state schools are providing early years and primary education for the majority of children. They appear to deliver a decent quality of education relative to...