Just finished rereading @antonhowes.bsky.social book on the history of @thersaorg.bsky.social It’s such a fantastic history of institutional adaptation - in every era the RSA has been part of huge social changes. Mass education, the abolition of slavery, and environmentalism included!

Productive @thersaorg.bsky.social day cooking up a plan I'm looking forward to writing up tomorrow 🤔

See also Rachel Botsman for @thersaorg.bsky.social at www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/... - good analysis, but limited on policy responses.

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This links to Andy Haldane’s @thersaorg.bsky.social lecture on declining social capital and fewer public spaces as the very wealth hoard assets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFF_...

@thersaorg.bsky.social Thank you for a valuable meeting of Global Fellows this morning. Some fascinating conversations emphasising the need to collaborate, share ideas, escape silos, apply robust science and optimise inclusion at every stage. I feel this is needed more than ever right now.

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