Charles Leadbeater
Articles by Charles Leadbeater
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Technology
The real way that Twitter can change society
- 14 September 2011
How we use social media may be up to us but it is also shaped by our culture, politics and government.
Society
The best things in life are free
- 15 January 2010
- 4 comments
As we begin a new decade with the debris of a once-revered financial system at our feet, we have the chance to re-evaluate our relationship with the money god . . . or risk becoming enslaved to it all over again
Society
A Neet solution
- 10 July 2008
Increasing numbers of teenagers stumble at the transition from school to work. There is an answer
Books
A series of mini-accidents always in progress
- 15 July 2002
Does our global economy offer us the option of a new capitalism? asks Charles Leadbeater
Ideas
NS Essay - Globalisation: now the good news
- 01 July 2002
Pessimists of left and right agree: we are a degenerate society, betrayed by our lust for change and obsession with fashion. Yet the world is getting better faster than ever before
Politics
Are we going to throw her away?
- 09 July 2001
Lara Croft is the symbol of a world-class British industry. But without better support from government and investors, it's stuffed, report Charles Leadbeater and Kate Oakley
Politics
Get online and learn to be green
- 05 March 2001
On the internet, you can read without harming a tree. But you can also order a dirty great van to deliver more books. By Charles Leadbeater and Rebecca Willis
Politics
Dotcoms will rise again
- 15 January 2001
If you now find the internet boring and clunky, wait for the next one, due in 2003
Politics
Sir Humphrey needs venture capital
- 27 November 2000
- 1 comment
A civil servant with a bright new idea will keep quiet - nobody will fund it and he'll get the blame if it goes wrong. Charles Leadbeater wants to change all that
