Why have young people not yet rebelled, organized themselves and gone on strike on the missing public pension reforms? The post Dateline Germany: Why Pension Reform Is Key to Stabilizing Democracy appeared first on The Globalist.| The Globalist
‘What is going on here?’ This is the question at the heart of Kay and King’s Radical Uncertainty – a question the authors suggest we should all be asking much more often. In this large and wide-ranging book, John Kay (economist and founding Dean of Oxford University’s Said Business school) and Mervyn King (economist and […]| Hilary Cottam
I received an email last week – from Norway – with an image of a green tea cup and a message that read as follows: “I just wanted to tell you how much you inspired me that day in Arendal. I had never thought about loneliness or solitude that way. Thank you. I have started a […]| Hilary Cottam
What is the role of the modern state in creating the good life? Are we, the public servants of today, simply humanisers of the inevitable[1], those who must mop up the fall out of rapid techno economic change. Or can we be the radical architects of a much-needed social revolution? Everywhere the social systems, tools and frameworks […]| Hilary Cottam
Five years ago almost to the day, I made my first visit to Denmark. At a conference on public service design hosted by MindLab, I was struck when Jorgen Clausen, the chief executive of Odense (Denmark’s third largest city) began his presentation talking about the city’s 1,000 leaders and 16 thousand employees. These are the […]| Hilary Cottam
I was honoured this week to deliver the annual Newsam Lecture to police leaders from across the country. ‘Is modern policing social work?’ I asked in the title of my lecture.| www.hilarycottam.com
I prefer the word "Social Security" to so-called "Welfare" - a term that I would like to see expunged from the bureaucratic lexicon. What's wrong with "Welfare"?Because W*lf*re suggests charity. It demeans unemployed recipients as "poor unfortunate souls" or losers at best, and scroungers and bludgers verging on criminality at worst. Without beating the social| Reflections on the Neurodiversity Paradigm