by Alison Seabrooke | Aug 8, 2018 | Personal
Who gives a Pluck? A review of Fascism: A Warning, by Madeleine Albright There is nothing like reading a good book, but I am bad at it. Daily demands, aka a lack of personal discipline, reduces me to an online daily digest of public affairs, contemporary articles and...
by Alison Seabrooke | Nov 15, 2017 | Personal, Thinkpiece
I have a confession to make. It was not until 2014, just before my second year at BUILD (Bilbao Urban Innovation and Leadership Dialogues), that I fully understood the role of its initiator, the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS). I had been describing...
by Alison Seabrooke | Apr 6, 2017 | Article
I’ve long held that peer-to-peer learning can be more powerful than formal training and with deepening devolution, the Good City Economy UK road trip is a great idea. The next logical step is international ‘study’, given that cities collaborate with greater...
by Alison Seabrooke | Mar 27, 2017 | Thinkpiece
Communities Week 2017 provided a refreshing reminder of how local communities continue to take action on the issues that affect them, without apology or permission. It reminded me, too, of many national conversations I have been party to around how to support,...
by Alison Seabrooke | Jun 25, 2016 | Thinkpiece
When Jo Cox MP met her untimely death, holding a constituency surgery on 16 June, I mused over the reaction to this tragedy in comparison to the mass shooting in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub four days earlier. Why had this single event, on a small island, provoked such...
