This chapter, by TCC Founder David Evans, originally featured in #FutureComms – the LGA’s guide to building local public services for the future through modern communications. Key points •…
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The most partisan areas for each World Cup team One of the pleasures during a World Cup – at least for non-adherents of the Tebbit Test – is seeing the…
This blog originally featured on the Exterion website, as part of their work on the widening participation agenda. It is co-authored by TCC Director David Evans and Exterion’s Karen Landles (PDF of the…
TCC’s Chris Clarke explores the different types of challenge that the five pilot councils chosen as part of the government’s Integrated Communities strategy are likely to face. Images taken from…
This article was originally posted on LabourList. Image above taken from here. Do people vote by values or interests? This question harks back to the dawn of Labour politics….
This article, written by TCC’s David Evans, was originally posted on the New Statesman’s Staggers blog on June 1st, in the run-up to the election. It’s based on a poll we…
This article first appeared on the NLGN blog. The local elections earlier this month saw several city regions elect first time Metro Mayors. The turnout in places like Manchester (29%),…
This blog originally featured in Local Government Information Unit Trust is key to any relationship; David Evans looks at how solid community engagement can increase the levels of trust between…
This blog originially featured in NLGN In recent years, the word ‘place’ has become a bit of a buzzword in the local government sector. Terms like ‘place-leadership’, ‘place-branding’ and ‘place-building’…
This blog originally featured in Huffington Post This week the LGA launched the New Conversations guide. This is a tool for councils to help with engagement, which we at TCC…
Image taken from here WRAP this week revealed that UK household food waste has increased for the first time in a decade, rising to the equivalent of £13bn of food…
TCC have had a number of interns working for us over the last few years, through a scheme which brings American students to the UK as part of their academic…
This article, written by TCC’s Chris Clarke, first featured on Left Foot Forward in October 2016. Image by Sam Saunders. The Labour conference opened up a significant debate about young people…
What is the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the words ‘mental health’? Think for a moment what comes to your mind. Does your answer match…
This article first featured on Huffpost Politics “We have entered an age of post-truth politics.” So declared the New York Times last month. They are, of course, not alone in seeing…
The TUC last week published Living for the Weekend – an important piece of research into how ‘young core workers’ (21- to 30-year-old non graduates paid less than £20,000 a year) can…
This article first featured on the NLGN blog The moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt uses an interesting metaphor to describe the interaction, within the human brain, between our gut instincts and…
This article first featured in The MJ On the morning of polling day of the EU referendum, the #UseAPen meme began to trend on twitter – so much so that…