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Geoff Mulgan CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation between 2011 and 2019. Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had roles in the UK government including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and the Performance and Innovation Unit, and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. From 2004 to 2011 he was the first Chief Executive of The Young Foundation. He was the first director of the think-tank Demos; and has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio.
AC: My psychiatrist wants me to do the month in a croft because he says whatever causes my depression will percolate up through me. This is one piece of thoughtful contemporary literature that I would recommend to lovers of Jodi Picoult or even Jill Mansell and Kristin Hannah. This love story begins on a plane headed to Chicago. Jo and Dean: two individuals with very different world-views and pasts. Can they make it work; after knowing how brutal, loss and emptiness can be?
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The Government should collect, publish and monitor equalities data systematically; increase the use of Equality and Impact Assessments for legislation; and strengthen and protect the powers and independence of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. AC: Has that feeling gone? It can’t have done because we get lots of people messaging the podcast and saying that you should have another go. The use of ‘skeleton legislation’ should be treated by Government as exceptional, not convenient. We affirm recommendations by several House of Lords committees and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, “ skeleton legislation should be reserved for the most exceptional cases”, and where it is sought, the Government should fully explain and justify why such a Bill or clause is necessary. Broad delegated powers should not be included within a Bill merely to paper over poor policy development at the primary legislation stage. This is a recurring theme in Conservative thought, and with good reason. But it’s easy to take the arguments for a smaller state for granted, and assume they are self-evident to everyone. At least as dangerous, politically, is the temptation to think in terms of theory when voters think almost exclusively in terms of practice. I therefore wanted to find out how people saw the questions at stake in this debate – about the tax burden, business regulation, spending and public services, the role of the state itself, and how they reacted to the low-tax, small-state agenda .
While each room appears very specific, both in terms of the art it encompasses and the social and cultural themes highlighted, certain phenomena recur, like cresting waves, at various points across the centuries. These include the growth of cities, the expansion of empire, the rise of industry, the changing conditions of rural life and the natural environment, the struggle for democracy, and art’s variable relationship with popular culture; or looked at another way, class dynamics, women’s histories, diasporic experience, and LGBTQ+ lives.RS: It is deeply bust. I look with envy at Angela Merkel and some of these German politicians. Maybe no system is perfect. Maybe with modern marketing and social media it means there’s even less space to be a rounded individual. But I’m sure we can do it better than this.
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