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Author: David Boyle

Blog The Absent Corporation 

The resistable rise of the Absent Corporation

17th July 202217th July 2022 David Boyle 1 Comment absent coporation, customer service, tickbox

I have tried to launch some kind of award system over the 18 months or so since the publication of

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Blog 

The man who invented a new kind of money – for health and justice

30th January 202228th April 2022 David Boyle 0 Comments cahn, co-production, currenciies, other pandemic, time banks

I’m afraid that the co-author of our last pamphlet (The Other Pandemic), the inspirational civil rights leader Edgar Cahn, has

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Badvertising Blog 

How to increase the chances of success at COP26

28th October 202128th October 2021 David Boyle 0 Comments advertising, COP26, polluters, sponsorship

So that was the budget then – and, bizarrely, on the eve of a hugely important climate conference, UK chancellor Rishi

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Badvertising Blog 

It is time we stopped the ‘brain pollution’ of high-carbon advertising

2nd October 20213rd October 2021 David Boyle 0 Comments badverts, brain pollution, chris van tulleken

The advertising industry has enjoyed a lack of scrutiny for its role in the climate crisis, but its time end

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Blog The Economics Reformation 

We can still bring high streets back to life…

17th December 202020th December 2020 David Boyle 1 Comment clone towns, high streets, local economics

By David Boyle, Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms “We created 400 clone towns nobody loves. We shouldn’t get upset –

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Blog 

Bye-bye Kier Group, and Serco, G4S etc…

9th November 202027th January 2021 David Boyle 1 Comment carillion, outsourcing, privatisation, randox

Outsourcing and privatisation died at 15:18 on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Or thereabouts. That was of course a misquotation of

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Blog 

It is time to save the NHS from tickbox

27th August 202025th August 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments bureaucracy, healthcare, NHS, tickbox

The tickbox phenomenon, which I have been writing about for most of this year, seems finally to have reached its

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Blog 

Munich, ‘good Germans’ and the dangers of othering your opponents

23rd July 20203rd August 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments gerngross, munich, nazis, othering

Rupprecht Gerngross is not a household name, even among historians of World War II, though he led what may have

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Blog 

How to dodge the next wave of ghost towns

8th June 20208th June 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments COVID-19, ghost towns, time banks, town centres

Bernie Ward is a friend mine, but she is also something of a heroine. For six thrilling years, she led

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Blog Open Public Media 

The BBC’s Wartime Hero

5th March 20206th March 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments BBC, media, Public service broadcasting

Noel Newsome took over the BBC European Service on the day that the Nazis invaded Poland, on 1 September 1939.

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