Ros Taylor

It's fascinating how she got into environmentalism just before she was removed.

Since everything's about Robert Jenrick today, I'll add that he wants to (re)open coal mines and says solar is despoiling the countryside.

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

Going to channel Tory conference* and say: just rejoice.

(*Thatcher was a great admirer of James Lovelock.)

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'Globalisation means that, as an individual, you need to trust many more companies, institutions, and people than you did before because your contacts with the world are multiplied and spread geographically and culturally wider. You have to trust things you may only have a very abstract idea about.'

The Crisis of Trust - Globalization - I by IMD Ros Taylor, author of ‘The Future of Trust’, explores how globalization has fractured trust in institutions and led to a renewed faith in the individual.

Spoke to i by IMD magazine about why trust in institutions is faltering, and the temptation to turn to charismatic individuals instead

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I have never seen ET.

When I think about restrictions on protest, I try to imagine both people I support and people I loathe carrying out the same action, and how I respond to each. It’s difficult but a useful exercise.

They may well see it that way, but is that enough of a justification for jailing the protestors?

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused "repeated disorder".

As ever, it never seems to occur to the government that protest - of all kinds - can act as a safety valve for public anger, rather than a sign the protestor means to do something violent.

Police to get broader powers to restrict repeated protests www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thanks David!

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Brilliant to hear

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Researching the latest More Jam Tomorrow, I was struck by what an amazing thing it was for the Home Office to support prisoners who wanted to study – which was impossible before the Open University was founded.

Just the most decent and humanitarian thing to do.

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Showing how the tabloid press plays with its prey would have been enough. But The Hack wanted a hero.

How we're funded

The Nuffield Trust has nothing to do with Nuffield hospitals.

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Yes, exactly. He looked mortified for a moment. I thought the speech might die at that point

If nothing else, I want other people to hear ‘You’ve never seen anywhere like it/ Central MILTON KEYNES! Junction 14, just off the M1’ on repeat in their heads.

Thanks Maria! Lovely to hear.

When he brought up his father and apologised for doing it again, the hall laughed, and for just an instant Starmer looked quite out of countenance. He recovered but you could see the brief anger: I’m trying to explain who I am, and you’re laughing.

Yeah. Starmer very much didn’t get that. His father was incredibly taciturn.

People who’ve travelled a long way from their upbringing tend to either edit it out, or carry it with them, wondering what their dead parents would have thought of them. Starmer is one of the latter.

If you want to understand Labour and Starmer’s angsty preoccupation with the working class, just listen to his speech this week.

My father, the toolmaker. (Again - it keeps troubling him.) He didn’t get the respect he deserved. (Unspoken: what would you think of me, Dad? Am I letting you down?)

Lovely to be interviewed for this!

*1923!

Featuring MK resident and architectural historian @grindrod.bsky.social plus @seththevoz.bsky.social voicing Open University chancellor Lord Gardiner.

Gardiner did a degree in social sciences at the OU. He already had a fourth in jurisprudence from Oxford from 2023.

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