In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Is Britain really the butler to the world's kleptocrats, criminals and tax dodgers? Is this country, famed for its supposed sense of fair play, really one of the few to do more to frustrate global anti-corruption efforts? Journalist Oliver Bullough believes so. He joins Matthew to discuss the UK's addiction to dirty money, and what should be done about it. Oliver Bullough is the author of the financial expose Moneyland, and two celebrated books about the former Soviet Union: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. His journalism appears regularly in the Guardian, The New York Times and GQ. His latest book is Butler to the World: The book the oligarchs don’t want you to read - how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals. A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA. In this time of global change, strong communities and initiatives that bring people together are more invaluable than ever before. The RSA Fellowship is a global network of problem solvers. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking here.

In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. In our age of the internet and social media, the pandemic has revealed the importance of accurate science reporting. Fiona Fox, chief executive of the Science Media Centre, is an expert in science communication. She takes Matthew behind the scenes of some of the most contentious stories over the past two decades to chart the complex interplay between scientists and journalists - and warns of the damage to public understanding when scientists are silenced. Fiona Fox  became the founding director of the Science Media Centre, Britain’s independent press office for science, in 2001.  In 2014, she was awarded an OBE for her services to science. She holds honorary fellowships at the Academy of Medical Sciences, Royal Society of Biology and the British Pharmacological Society, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol. Her latest book is 'Beyond The Hype: The Inside Story of Science's biggest media controversies'.A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA. In this time of global change, strong communities and initiatives that bring people together are more invaluable than ever before. The RSA Fellowship is a global network of problem solvers. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking here.

In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Noga Arikha has long been fascinated with mental illness and the way we understand identity. Researching her new book, the philosopher and historian spent 18 months at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris studying what happens when the mind goes wrong – and how our physical experiences inform our identities. Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. She works as a science humanist, fostering dialogues between neuroscientists, psychologists, clinicians, social scientists, humanists and artists in order to bring to a general audience accessible accounts that analyse the origins of our deepest concerns about our embodied, feeling and thinking selves. Her latest book, The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind, is an exploration of brain, self, dementia and medicine based on the stories of neuropsychiatric patients. A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA. In this time of global change, strong communities and initiatives that bring people together are more invaluable than ever before. The RSA Fellowship is a global network of problem solvers. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking here.

In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.It seems obvious that pleasure leads to happiness. So why are we attracted to gruelling challenges that at times can truly hurt, from writing a novel to running a marathon or even raising a family? Drawing on findings from psychology and brain science, psychologist Paul Bloom argues that meaning and sacrifice can unlock the key to lasting happiness.Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. Paul studies how children and adults make sense of the world, with special focus on pleasure, morality, religion, fiction, and art. He has written for scientific journals such as Nature and Science, and for popular outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of six books, including his most recent, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA. In this time of global change, strong communities and initiatives that bring people together are more invaluable than ever before. The RSA Fellowship is a global network of problem solvers. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking here. 

In this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. The final guest in the series is Professor David Pendleton, one of the world’s leading experts on the subject. His 'Primary Colours' model of leadership, has been highly influential in government in the UK and beyond. David Pendleton is a Professor in Leadership at Henley Business School and an Associate Fellow at the Said Business School at Oxford. He has worked as an adviser on leadership development for a wide range of private and public sector organisations around the world.  A founder of the Edgecumbe Consulting Group in 1995, the latest edition of his book ‘Leadership: No More Heroes’ was published last year.The pandemic has brought home to all of us the importance of the public services we sometimes take for granted. Not just the NHS but schools, local councils, the police and the prison service have all faced huge challenges keeping the show on the road. Clear leadership has been crucial to this task. Now more than ever our public services need great head teachers, chief constables, great prison governors and hospital directors. But what makes for great leadership in the public sector? How do you make sure organisations are delivering for the public and not squandering hard earned taxes? How do you handle a crisis or navigate the complex relationship with an ever-changing government?Justin Russell is Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Probation. He’s spent his life working and learning from inspirational leaders who have done all of these things and more. In this special series for Bridges to the Future, he’ll be speaking to just some of those who have survived and thrived at the top to find out how they did it and what they can teach you. 

In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.With Russia facing crippling sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine and with many businesses, from McDonald's to Apple, pulling out of the country, does this mark the dawn of a new era for the relationship between big business and geopolitics? Can business ever be 'apolitical'? And as more of us express our political identity through the goods we purchase, has this given rise to 'political consumerism'? To discuss all this, Matthew is joined by Joe Zammit-Lucia, author of The New Political Capitalism.Joe Zammit-Lucia is a founder of RADIX – a not-for-profit public policy think tank based in London, and the RADIX Centre for Business, Politics & Society based in Amsterdam. His latest book is The New Political Capitalism: How Businesses and Societies Can Thrive in a Deeply Politicized World.A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA.  In this time of global change, strong communities and initiatives that bring people together are more invaluable than ever before. The RSA Fellowship is a global network of problem solvers. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking here.

Special series: Lessons in LeadershipIn this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. In this fifth episode, Justin meets Jo Dibb, the headteacher whose school inspired Michelle Obama. In 2009, just two months after she had become first lady, Michelle Obama paid a visit to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school – a girls comprehensive in North London. It was to have a profound effect on her. Writing about the visit nearly 10 years later, she reflected on the way the girls she met there had touched her heart and about the sense of purpose that visit had given her – to devote herself to girls education and life chances. “The energy I felt thrumming in that school” she said “had nothing to do with obstacles. It was the power of nine hundred girls striving”.Jo Dibb is the head teacher who greeted Michelle Obama that day and whose leadership inspired those nine hundred girls.  A head teacher for twenty years and until 2021 the executive head of the Islington Futures Federation, she has been recognised by the Evening Standard as one of London’s most influential people and in 2020 won a Kindness in Leadership award.Justin Russell is Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Probation. He’s spent his life working and learning from inspirational leaders who have done all of these things and more. In this special series for Bridges to the Future, he’ll be speaking to just some of those who have survived and thrived at the top to find out how they did it and what they can teach you.A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA.   

In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.Matthew is joined by the author of 'Sweat: a History of Exercise', Bill Hayes. Together Matthew and Bill take a jog through history to find out more about our ancestors' attitude to keeping fit, and what we can learn from them next time we lace up a pair of trainers and hit the gym. Bill Hayes is an American non-fiction writer and photographer. He's the author of several books including his latest, 'Sweat: A History of Exercise'. A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA.  In this time of global change, strong communities and initiatives that bring people together are more invaluable than ever before. The RSA Fellowship is a global network of problem solvers. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking here.

Special series: Lessons in LeadershipIn this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. In this fourth episode, Justin meets Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice – one of the UK’s biggest voluntary organisations with almost 30,000 staff and volunteers providing essential advice and help to 3 million people a year.  The pandemic has brought home to all of us the importance of the public services we sometimes take for granted. Not just the NHS but schools, local councils, the police and the prison service have all faced huge challenges keeping the show on the road. Clear leadership has been crucial to this task. Now more than ever our public services need great head teachers, chief constables, great prison governors and hospital directors. But what makes for great leadership in the public sector? How do you make sure organisations are delivering for the public and not squandering hard earned taxes? How do you handle a crisis or navigate the complex relationship with an ever-changing government?Justin Russell is Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Probation. He’s spent his life working and learning from inspirational leaders who have done all of these things and more. In this special series for Bridges to the Future, he’ll be speaking to just some of those who have survived and thrived at the top to find out how they did it and what they can teach you

In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.Our emotions drive much of our behaviour. But do we have the same emotions as people who lived three hundred years ago or who live three hundred miles away? And how exactly do we define what an emotion is? To find out, Matthew is joined by Richard Firth-Godbehere, author of 'A Human History of Emotion'. Richard Firth-Godbehere is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. His latest book is 'A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know'. A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA.  In this time of global change, strong communities and initiatives that bring people together are more invaluable than ever before. The RSA Fellowship is a global network of problem solvers. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking here.