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About Ben Rogers

Ben Rogers is an Associate Fellow of ippr and Demos and a Visiting Fellow at The Royal Society of Arts.  He has worked in local and central government and led the Cabinet Office Team that wrote the Government’s Strategy for Quality of Place

Articles by Ben Rogers

Friday 19th November

Let's not be shy about beauty

Ben Rogers, 19 November 2010
The Tories should rediscover their pre-crash aspiration to "beauty" in planning and architecture, even if most new developments are destined to fall short of this elusive ideal
Thursday 30th September

A Big Society needs republican values

Ben Rogers, 30 September 2010
Instead of rejecting the Conservatives' Big Society outright, the left should endorse its values but argue that the state has an important role to play in fostering them.
Wednesday 15th November

Citizen assemblies: radical common sense

Ben Rogers, 15 November 2006
An innovative way of involving citizens in public, democratic deliberation is spreading, says Ben Rogers.
Thursday 22nd September

Courtroom shake-up

Ben Rogers, 22 September 2005
“If trial by jury didn’t exist, we would never have the audacity to invent it” – but a yawning gap exists between democratic ideal and democratic practice. Ben Rogers investigates innovations that promise to shake up Britain's judicial system.
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