The call to ‘Level Up’ was to the 2019 election what ‘Take Back Control’ was to the Brexit referendum. It was the Conservative rallying cry…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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The problem with the Levelling Up White Paper is that the government’s plan is strong on boosting regional economic growth – but weak on how…
When I was writing my Tickbox book, I found myself researching the great American technocrat Robert McNamara, Like many other people in deep thrall to…
The war unleashed by Vladimir Putin against Ukraine has been going on for over a month and a half. It is therefore not the Blitzkrieg…
Imagine waking in the middle of the night and being told that you have to leave your home, your community, everything you know about your…
On 29 March,, very serious peace talks took place in Istanbul, in the Ottoman palace of Dolmabahce, between Russian and Ukrainian belligerents. They were opened…
The ten macro trends in the NHS (see my Book 1) are creating many more chronic, out-of-hospital conditions and even ‘new’ conditions such as diabetes…
The latest 3,600-page report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations’ climate research unit, looks at the consequences of rising average temperatures…
On Saturday 26 March, in the courtyard of Warsaw’s Royal Castle, Joe Biden gave a speech destined to go down in history. Reinvigorated by Ukrainian…
Our recent book New Shoots[1] explores opportunities arising from trends that are changing our world. Some of these are widely recognised – for instance global…
Faced with a bogged down Russian army in Ukraine, the West is faced with a dilemma. Should it distribute more weapons to the Ukrainian resistance,…
I flew to Poland about ten days ago. I wasn’t sure entirely what I was going to achieve when I got there – but I…