This morning I spoke at the Bright Blue online event, After the White Paper: Levers for Levelling Up, alongside Robert Jenrick, Damian Green, Anushka Asthana, Angela Lockwood and Rob Waltham. There are different views about what it will take to ‘level up’ Britain; indeed, there are different views about what…

Chances are, if you’ve had any involvement with The Cares Family over the past decade, you know our origin story. On election day, in May 2010, while out canvassing for votes, I met my 84-year-old neighbour, Fred, was exposed to the dual isolation of older and younger people in our…

Two years ago I wrote a blog about what I learned as I became one of 20 inaugural Obama Fellows. …

The path through the Covid-19 crisis is long and hard. Organisations making a huge difference now, and leaning into the challenge in communities, must also consider the world we want to see in a decade, and our role in shaping it. …

This article was first published on The Huffington Post in August 2011 My hometown has been battered this past week, eaten by its young in an apparently senseless, spontaneous, sustained attack that later spread to towns and cities across the country. Commentators have done what commentators do: fumbled for hasty…

It’s been over a year now since I first wrote about my experience of being one of the inaugural 20 Obama Foundation Fellows, and what I’d learned at the opening gathering of that group in May 2018. Since then, the Foundation itself has grown, launching its Leaders: Africa and Scholars…

Earlier this month, the BBC launched its new Crossing Divides On the Move initiative. In partnership with travel companies across the UK, the intention was to spark conversations between passengers on some of their seven billion journeys a year across their neighbourhoods and nation — all in an attempt to…