On 17 October 2024, the Common Good Foundation brought together hundreds of people from Grimsby, Immingham and Cleethorpes at a public assembly to launch their own community organisation: LOGIC.
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Director of the Common Good Foundation sat down with Dutch philosopher and political thinker Ad Verbrugge on De Nieuwe TV. They discussed the meaning of the common good, contemporary clashes between globalisation and national sovereignty, and how to find a path through our interregnum. Transcript to come shortly.
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Our outgoing Trustee, Leslie Dighton, was interviewed for a podcast by Elaine Herdman-Barker, Chair & Partner for Mutual Growth at Global Leadership Associates. The podcast discusses the meaning of the common good, as we at the Common Good Foundation use it. It serves as a succinct introduction to the guiding philosophy of the charity.
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Organising is at the heart of our approach to the common good, and so the Common Good Foundation is proud to announce a new project pioneering small-town, working-class organising in Grimsby.
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Over the course of 2021, the Common Good Foundation has worked with writers, environmentalists, academics and others to develop a politics of nature and the environment that both reflects a richer understanding of human beings as creatures rooted in nature, and that would have wide purchase in the country, reaching the people and places often sceptical about the claims of contemporary environmentalism. This manifesto is the result.
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The Common Good Foundation is partnering with the Journal of Missional Practice and Together for the Common Good to bring together faith leaders around a vision of the new era that is emerging after coronavirus as we leave the era of liberal globalisation. We have jointly published a third letter, following on from The Plague and the Parish and Renewing the Covenant, on the politics of grace and place.
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The Common Good Foundation is partnering with the Journal of Missional Practice and Together for the Common Good to bring together faith leaders around a vision of the new era that is emerging after coronavirus as we leave the era of liberal globalisation. We have jointly published a new letter, following on from The Plague and the Parish, explaining why this requires moving from a society of contract to one of covenant.
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The Common Good Foundation is partnering with the Journal of Missional Practice and Together for the Common Good to bring together faith leaders around a vision of the new era that is emerging after coronavirus as we leave the era of liberal globalisation. We have written and recorded a joint statement that tells the story of the new era.
You can watch it in full here.
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As part of our work on a common good internationalism as an alternative to both nationalism and globalisation, we are publishing a report authored by Director of Research Tobias Phibbs unpicking the alliance between Western capitalism and Chinese communism.
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On Wednesday 6 May, Maurice Glasman gave a talk to the Turnaround Management Association on the coming post-coronavirus settlement. The talk outlines the shape of the new era, and the possibilities for asserting the common good within it.
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On 23 April, Maurice Glasman gave a talk and Q&A on coronavirus, globalisation and the common good to the Industrial Areas Foundation. The IAF is the US’ largest network of faith and community-based organisers, with its networks extending to the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere. The talk highlights the possibilities for common good leadership emerging out of the crisis.
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In The End of the Thirty Year Itch, producer Phil Tinline interviews Director of the Common Good Foundation Maurice Glasman and others to explore the idea of taking power away from both the free market and the centralised state, and re-empowering local communities. In short, it is an exploration of the possibilities for renewing the common good in our society.
Listen here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gt2q
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This is the text of the Craigmyle Lecture to the Catholic Union delivered by Lord Glasman, Director of the Common Good Foundation, on 10th October 2019 at Notre Dame University, London.
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Lord Glasman and Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times, debate whether profit corrupts, on Across the Red Line on BBC Radio 4. Presented by Anne McElvoy.
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The Corporation is no longer conceived of as a self-governing institution constituted by its various mutually dependent parts as befits its status as a civic body but as a cash machine based upon profit maximisation.
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A good society, defined here as a society capable of producing goods, requires institutions within the economy that preserve the skills and practices required for concerted responses to innovation and uncertainty.
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Nothing much has changed in two thousand years. The global entrepot-hub of the City of London is world-leading and thriving; the domestic and regional financial sector has been starved of sunlight for several decades and does a relatively poor job of supporting domestic households and firms.
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Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Communist theorist in the early part of the Twentieth Century, described an interregnum as a time when ‘the old is dead but the new cannot be born, when there is fraternisation of opposites and all manner of morbid symptoms pertain.’
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