If we think differently, we must also act differently, and only if we act differently can we produce new experiences…
I wish I’d been in that meeting. You know, the one where East Riding County Council instructed Jacobs Enforcement Services to recover an outstanding parking…
Over the past decade there has been a boom in the industry of “motivational speaking”. The industry has seen a boom across both of its…
When Barack Obama was elected President of the United States in 2008 this was treated as a landmark event. He presented himself as the underdog,…
Bernie Sanders’ campaign is right: “Our economy works for Wall Street because it’s rigged by Wall Street. That’s the problem.” From Four Horsemen: Famous for…
Creative capitalism, ethical capitalism, altruistic capitalism, natural capitalism, green capitalism, distributed and democratic capitalism. Capitalism 2.0? Capitalism comes with a potpourri of sweet-scented prefixes, all…
The infamous Conservative March 2016 budget was to capture ‘the next generations’ and control their cognitive map.
Separating economics and politics is impossible, so it’s important to point out that the misguided notion of austerity is not just killing people, but also…
Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, one thing has taken centre stage when it comes to economic recovery: job creation. It is under this…
We’ve all been that person who tries to start a conversation with a bunch of strangers out of extreme social anxiety at being in a…
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Eliane Glaser is a Guardian writer, a lecturer and broadcaster. Her interest in ideology and propaganda has led her to critique the current faltering economic…
The Ten-Step Parent Guide to Supporting You Child’s Learning in the Early Years.
It’s so easy to be educated but not really know anything. The system is set up for compliance so we do well in it by ‘doing what we’re told and doing it to the best of our abilities’.
For some people that’s their entire life - but some discover there is more to it than that and do something about it.
Private institutions who sell education as a commodity for profit are putting their interests above that of children. This corrosive shift is not what children, teachers or the world needs. Economist Prabhat Patnaik explains how real education is being deconstructed.
The night has been lit up with the red white and blue of the French flag, which, projected on landmarks across the occident, showed solidarity…
The late fourteen hundreds saw the scramble of enlightened countries towards conquest of what was once known as “the new world”. Fuelled by the righteous…
Darren Coffield is an artist and writer who feels the art world (read art industry) has become so commercialised that it now exists only to…
From Robert McNamara’s 1995 book “In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam”
In this bonus sequence from our Meet the Renegades show, writer John Lanchester talks about the London housing crisis, it’s social impacts and it’s consequences…
n our next episode of Meet the Renegades, we talk with writer John Lanchester.
We discuss how to navigate many of the challenges society faces today.
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” So said the Red Queen to Alice…
Where do ideas come from? What motivates people? In this Thinking Differently podcast, Ross Ashcroft talks to cartoonist, creative entrepreneur and co-founder of GapingVoid Hugh MacLeod….
In this Meet the Renegades, Ross Ashcroft speaks to writer and educator Ian Gilbert. They discuss the faltering education system in developed nations and how it is affecting a generation of children.
In the first episode of our new podcast series Thinking Differently, Ross Ashcroft speaks to Oscar winning filmmaker, Lord David Puttnam.
In the first episode of our new podcast series Thinking Differently, Ross Ashcroft speaks to Oscar winning filmmaker and educator Lord David Puttnam.
Despite their bed-hopping antics, the most important legacy of the Bloomsbury Group is what can be achieved by people who are prepared to challenge convention in pursuit of a better world, argues Mark Braund.
We need a more sophisticated debate about business and how it impacts on wider society, writes Mark Braund.
Ross Ashcroft speaks to cartoonist and creative entrepreneur Hugh MacLeod in this extract from our most recent ‘Meet the Renegades’ podcast.
How can we begin to reduce crime if corporations profit from having full jails?
Anyone who believes in the possibility of a better world should support Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn, even if they’re not convinced by his traditional left-wing agenda, argues Mark Braund.
Roman Krznaric, author of ‘Empathy: Why it matters and how to get it”, tells us the story of C. P. Ellis, the Klansman turned civil rights activist.
Oscar winning filmmaker and educator Lord David Puttnam is one of the guests on our ‘Meet the Renegades’ podcast series. His career and life have…
In a clip from our interview with Roman Krznaric, he tells us three ways in which we can all make our lives more empathic.
Comedian Pete Johansson is back to put some perspective on the “Migrant Crisis” in 60 seconds or less.
When you were born is irrelevant – how a mixed cohort now thinks — is about to change everything. When making the film Four Horsemen we regularly…
Recently we were told about a secret project. A group of wealthy benefactors decided that the modern targets based education wasn’t for them or their…
Ross Ashcroft talks to George Cooper, author of Money, Blood & Revolution. In the book he suggests that the economics profession is itself in a…
Renegade Thinking
Ross Ashcroft interviews Julia Noakes, author of the soon to be released book ‘Bankers on the Couch’.
Renegade Thinking
Ross Ashcroft speaks with Richard Vague - former banker and author of The Next Economic Disaster. They talk about his insights into private debt and…