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Conversation enriched, senses heightened, imagination stirred
Scratching the Surface with the Partridges at Anthropy 2025 Picture the scene. You are part of a small group sitting in a large tropical...
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Prime Minister: your health strategy must first be embedded in all your other missions and ultimately be local to its fingertips
Last week, in a speech entitled ‘ The fundamental reform of the British state’ the Prime Minister announced the abolition of NHS...
Mar 174 min read


What’s your idea for transforming our system of wealth creation?
Telegraph poles. You see them sometimes by the side of the road. They carry – or carried - telephone signals, and electricity. In our...
Mar 34 min read


The only growth we want is the growth that enhances our wellbeing
What Ed must say to Rachel There is tension between Energy Minister Ed Miliband and Chancellor of The Exchequer Rachel Reeves. An...
Feb 104 min read


Trust the people – the only way to put the populists back in their box
An open letter to Keir Starmer Dear Keir Happy New Year. So Elon Musk wants you removed as UK Prime Minister before the General Election....
Jan 134 min read


Charles Handy - a continuing inspiration to Tomorrow’s Company
credit: Elizabeth Handy Charles Handy, the man who inspired the foundation of Tomorrow’s Company has died. Many members of the Tomorrow’s...
Dec 18, 20245 min read


Four more years of Trump? Don’t get mad - get imaginative
Four more years of Trump? Around me people are depressed. I too am discouraged and anxious. So why do I feel a tiny bit less pessimistic...
Nov 11, 20244 min read


What the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer might have said… and should say next year
Introduction: In November 2022 I heard Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor, speak at the Anthropy Conference . Her speech – and the...
Oct 28, 20244 min read


Message to boards – get off the fence and start arguing for the regulation that the wellbeing of future generations demands
“The burden of regulation is too high” said Kemi Badenoch MP as she set out her case in front of Conservative Party members at their...
Oct 9, 20244 min read


Dishonourable compliance, suppressed conscience, and lethal compartmentalisation
The slippery slope to Grenfell to which all boards should be alert I haven’t read the whole Grenfell Inquiry Report . But I have listened...
Sep 9, 20244 min read


Abysmal exam results – the deeper causes
Almost 40% of students in the UK failed to pass English and Maths GCSE this year. The pass rates were even worse for those over 17.There...
Aug 27, 20244 min read

What nature teaches us about economics: everything is connected
In the 18th century the city of Edo (now Tokyo) adopted a policy of no waste. Almost everything was recycled, and the city was home to...
Jul 15, 20243 min read


Purposeful Business - who are we kidding? A question every GC should be asking
I like talking to lawyers. They care about words and their precise meaning. So do I. Last week I spent a day amongst lawyers who were...
Jun 28, 20245 min read


To hell with protocol, let’s be sure there isn’t an injustice here
My first grown-up job was in industrial relations in an engineering company. After 18 months I was asked to take up a post in a Cumbrian...
Jun 18, 20244 min read


Prison for parents? If 1 in 50 pupils are missing from half the lessons, it’s time to think again about what school is for
Throughout the world, education is seen as the route to progress. If children can be educated, they may find a route out of poverty. If...
Jun 5, 20243 min read


We need a curriculum for life – here’s how the next generation might shape it
Do schools look for talent in the wrong places? That was the question with which Tomorrow’s Company embarked on its session...
Nov 17, 20234 min read


Wake up and smell the 21st century coffee – three post Anthropy challenges for boards
SUMMARY 1. Do you understand the ways in which your business future depends on nature and nature-based solutions? If not, how will you...
Nov 6, 20234 min read


What is corporate responsibility and how can I identify it?
What is corporate responsibility? Try answering this question and you enter an Alice-through-the-Looking-Glass world where nothing is...
Oct 23, 20234 min read


Long term decisions for a brighter future? Yes Prime Minister, here are 12 suggestions to start with.
Standing at a lectern embellished with the words ‘LONG-TERM DECISIONS FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE’ our Prime Minister announced, without...
Sep 25, 20234 min read


Everything is collapsing and we aren’t learning any lessons. Time for business to speak up.
The front cover of the most recent edition of Private Eye has an infant school pupil saying to the Prime Minister ’Everything is...
Sep 13, 20234 min read
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