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Could a place-based approach save our high streets?
In the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, it’s easy to pin the blame for our declining high streets on the pandemic but of course they had been in trouble for a long time before the corona...
19 November 2020
Regulation about vaccines
We’ve had to move swiftly in many senses during covid-19. I’ve been especially interest about the caution taken in Europe about blod clots and vaccines, which have now ...
19 March 2021
As the world opens, how can we focus on the environment?
An interesting opinion piece about the importance of COP26 this year: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/23/cop26-boris-johnson-britain-world How do we work togethe...
23 March 2021
Grappling with existential risks
Climate change, artificial intelligence and further pandemics are genuine ‘catastrophic impact threats’ facing humanity in the decades ahead. But how do we rise to thre...
23 March 2021
Cop26 will not succeed if the world’s richest countries don’t show leadership
The world’s richest countries have broken their 2009 promise to provide $100bn a year to help developing countries cut emissions and cope with the impacts of climate breakdown. C...
29 March 2021
Do we have something to learn from further education?
Community-led devolution is surely synonymous with place-based governance. This New Local research offers thoughtful analysis of the challenges facing the UK’s further education ...
30 November 2020
Fly? Drive? Save the envionment.
A thought provoking piece in The Guardian today – will the shift in world behaviours following the covid-19 mean people are more willing to travel further to events and forge...
10 November 2020
How could digital save the highstreet?
Today brings with it the announcement of another potential loss to the high street, Debenhams. While many factors are to blame, most recently covid-19, the uprising of digital shop...
10 March 2021
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