We Need to Talk About the Ownership and Control of Schools

22^nd March 2013

Media Coverage

With the rumpus about forced academies and the news last week that a 27-year-old ex-deputy director of a right-wing think tank with no previous teaching experience is to become the head of a free school in London, the debate about ownership and control in our school system is likely to hot up.

MP Suggests German Model for Local Lending

21^st March 2013

Media Coverage

FT Adviser reports on Guy Opperman MP’s ‘Making It Mutual’ essay.

Cheshire Gives a Lead to Rural Counties Looking for a Fresh Approach

20^th March 2013

Media Coverage

One of the ironies of the government’s radical plans for localism is that they have sought to impose a narrative which champions the nation’s major cities over and above its counties and rural areas.

Budget 2013: Some of Osborne’s tiny changes could give a big boost to British industry

20^th March 2013

Media Coverage

Conservative Big society guru Phillip Blond slams Battersea estate as conditions as from “Soviet-era”

20^th March 2013

Media Coverage

Your Local Guardian reports on ResPublica Director Phillip Blond’s visit to the Surrey Lane, Winstanley and York Road estates.

Making It Mutual: A radical ethic of social innovation?

19^th March 2013

Media Coverage

In July 2010, fresh from electoral success, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced at Liverpool Hope University that he wanted to build a ‘big society’.

ResPublica Welcomes Utiligroup and RenewableUK as Partners for Forthcoming Project

19^th March 2013

News

ResPublica is pleased to announce that RenewableUK and Utiligroup will be partners for ResPublica’s forthcoming research project, ‘The Community Renewables Economy: Starting up, scaling up and spinning out”, due to commence Spring 2013.

John Lewis and Barclays – The contrasting faces of capitalism

13^th March 2013

Media Coverage

Here’s what John Spedan Lewis had to say in a BBC radio broadcast in the 1950s as he explained why he had given the family company to the staff: “The present state of affairs is really a perversion of the proper working of capitalism.

Give viewers shares in the BBC, Jowell urges

13^th March 2013

Media Coverage

ResPublica’s new essay collection is covered by Politics.co.

Britain’s Leaders Call for Wider Ownership Through Mutuals

13^th March 2013

Media Coverage

Co-operative News covers ResPublica’s Making It Mutual collection.