On the back of #Brexit (anything trending has a hashtag, right?) and the spurious claims, counter-claims, slogans, straplines and mistruths, it’s timely to read Alex Evans’ Eden 2.0. It’s a book about stories. It’s a book that illustrates how our quest for facts, data and information (truths) also need myths and stories to compel us to change the way we behave in a way that facts, data and truths don’t.
The scale of the current challenge facing local authorities is immense. Between 2010 and 2015, government funding dropped by 40% and the government recently announced further cuts to authorities in England of 6.7% between 2016 and 2020.