In any system, there will be change happening without you..

Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then you'll get….

The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to ….

If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who lost limbs in Afghanist….

People are saying, "I have a right to my opinion. Don't just keep condescending, telling me what to think." There's something slightly liberating abo….

You have a huge number of people who spend their time writing papers which show that migrants pay more to the country than they take out in benefits,….

What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me.".

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable..

In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react..

The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized i….

There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat themselves a lot a….

The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it b….

Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems..

There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong..

The magic formula is there is no magic formula..

Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a….

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself..

Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them..

I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens..

Until you have looked in depth at the system and found out where women in Egypt are not being cut through female genital mutilation, or where kids in….

When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change, whereas in more open places, mobi….