Born in New York City and raised in the UK, Rabbi Benjy Morgan spent 14 years studying in the top Rabbinic training academies in the world. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Learning Exchange (JLE), a London-based organisation which aims to teach Judaism’s relevance and deeper meaning to 21st-century Jewish youth and […]
Maurice, Baron Glasman is a political theorist, academic, social commentator, and Labour life peer, best known as a founder of Blue Labour. He is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme and a columnist for the New Statesman, Unherd, The Tablet and Spiked. We are […]
Danny Kruger has been the Member of Parliament for East Wiltshire, previously Devizes, since 2019. He became David Cameron’s chief speechwriter in 2006, whilst Cameron was Leader of the Opposition. He left this role two years later to work full-time at a youth crime prevention charity that he had co-founded called Only Connect. For his […]
(This is the Conclusion to Private Planning and the Great Estates (2023) split into five web-friendly sections) See: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3 What lessons are to be learnt from the great estates and their role in the development and redevelopment of London? The physical development of a city is not, as is often supposed, merely another […]
(This is Chapter 3 of Private Planning and the Great Estates (2023) split into five web-friendly sections) See: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Conclusion Parts 2 and 3 emphasised the historical role of private planning in the development and redevelopment of modern London, and argued that it had some of the benefits often claimed for regulated systems, […]
(This is Chapter 2 of Private Planning and the Great Estates (2023) split into five web-friendly sections) See: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Conclusion London’s expansion was neither uniform nor managed: London was expanding in the 1870s hand over fist, or rather in fits and starts. How was all that growth managed? Of planning in the […]
(This is the Introduction to Private Planning and the Great Estates (2023) split into five web-friendly sections) See: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Conclusion We can learn much from urban history. Perhaps more interesting than the record of any particular time period are the dynamics of the system: how cities respond to […]
(This is Chapter 1 of Private Planning and the Great Estates (2023) split into five web-friendly sections) See: Introduction, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Conclusion From the seventeenth century onward countless town planners (who would never have called themselves that) were engaged in imposing rationally conceived patterns of growth and development on London. For the […]
Conversations with the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics Perspectives on contemporary issues There are growing concerns that capitalism and democracy are in crisis. Despite the success of free markets in creating global prosperity over two centuries, the recent slowdown in growth in Western economies, the persistence of inflation, increasing economic inequality, financial instability and […]
A recent article reports on work by researchers at Anthropic, the AI lab that developed a ‘reasoning’ AI model, and their ability to look into the digital brains of large language models. Investigating what happens in a neural network as an AI model ‘thinks’, they uncovered some unexpected complexity that would suggest that on some […]