Impact investment is blossoming. What started as a fad for idealists is gradually becoming a mainstream concept often discussed by fund management hotshots and company executives. The concept itself is certainly appealin…
I don’t mean the type of adulterous scooter socialism enjoyed by French President Francois Hollande – I mean an agile and nimble State that is deftly able to do more with less. Kinky like an inflection point in a trend l…
- If you agree with this letter, then please sign the petition here - Open Letter from Residents in the Crystal Palace area 17 January 2014 Rt Hon Dame Tessa Jowell MP Hon Jim Dowd MP Hon Steve Reed MP Hon Chuka Umunna M…
The Commission on Banking Standards is appointed by both Houses of Parliament to consider and report on: professional standards and culture of the UK banking sector, taking account of regulatory and competition investiga…
A committed fiscal conservative like UK Chancellor George Osborne was never going to deviate from Government’s hard-wired policy of austerity. Nobody really expected a change of course in his 2013 Budget , not even after…
I recently went to Washington to learn about the new global impact economy being advocated by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and specifically to find out whether it is aligned with social business and social inve…
Promoters of the new high speed rail line (HS2) between London and Birmingham claim that it will generate £2 of economic benefit for every £1 spent. The Government says the benefit will be lower, around £1.40. But if a n…
“The real issue at stake is how the EU can maintain its influence and its relevance in a changing world”, said Lord David Howell, UK Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in his keynote speech of the…
Call it a new kind of capitalism. You make goods to sell to a mass market but your aim isn’t profit. Enterprises are run by workers and customers and surpluses are ploughed back to achieve social goals. Capitalism? Not a…
Commissioned by E!Sharp as part of the series "How to spend the EU budget" and published 9 January 2012, orginal article here . Photo: Spiegel online. Lauri Wylie’s 1963 comedy sketch “Dinner for One” has becom…
Published 1 December 2011, www.alliancemagazine.org , orginal article here . Fiscal consolidation within the European Union means that a stronger social economy is required to deliver where the state can no longer. More …
Commissioned by E!Sharp, Brussels based Journal - 23 Oct 2011 Fiscal consolidation within the European Union means that a stronger social economy is required to underpin the creation of socio-economic prosperity where th…
Article for the ResPublica Fringe Magazine 2011 "Essays and Articles from selected political party conference partners" (download magazine here , article on pg 17). 2011, Jointly written for ResPublica by: Fili…
The underlying reasons for this apparent feral behaviour are complex and individual motivations will vary, but there are some underlying psychological themes which may help us understand why the rioting was so contagious…
The Taskforce for a European social investment bank/ fund/ facility will be launched in Krakow, September 2011 (organised in cooperation with the Euclid Network (of European civil society professionals))
Social investing (equivalent to impact investing) encompasses such an increasingly broad range of financial activities and products, that some of it may be considered investment banking for the social sector. Examples in…