Thanks

Jules and Robert are greatly indebted to the tireless creativity and hard work of Arabella Bakker and Antoine Soussaline without whom this wiki book would have remained wild ramblings. Antoine for helping build and direct the wonderful website in which Citizen Renaissance is housed – and to the remarkable Arabella, who has both a detailed and disciplined eye of genius and the patience of a Saint.

Thanks are due to a number of people who helped inspire and inform this book. To Jackie Cooper, for being the harshest but best-intentioned critical friend. To Tom, Ciaran and John for endless (often beery) long-evening discussions. To David Brain, for unlocking the thinking on the ‘death of deference’ and for reminding us to avoid the language of student newspaper rants. And to Richard Edelman, both for his leadership ideas on Public Engagement, and for building a global PR firm where independent and pioneering thought is both incubated and actively encouraged. To our lovely wives Venetia and Vicky for their input, reviewing and generally putting up with us while we wrote (and wrote again…).

We would also like to thank the many other people who have inspired us to write this – many of whom have written the books we reference – and to those who have spent their time discussing aspects of the book with us. Lastly we would like to thank you – the reader – for taking the time to engage with the book and hopefully help us finish it.