I have been reading a lovely book by Helena Norberg Hodge about her life in Ladakh, the ancient enclave of Tibetan Buddhism on the Himalayan…
I have been reading a lovely book by Helena Norberg Hodge about her life in Ladakh, the ancient enclave of Tibetan Buddhism on the Himalayan…
Like many others, I followed the Novak Djokovic Australian Open visa debacle. It’d be hard not to as it was everywhere and I’m a slightly…
Mr Putin’s aims are fairly transparent. Basically he wants to keep himself in power and he wants to re-assert Russia’s role as a world power…
It is hardly a surprise that, as Lisa Nandy says, the Levelling Up White Paper comes up with no new ideas. But nor is it…
This post first appeared in the Financial Times yesterday, before today’s ‘levelling up’ announcements… It’s been just over two years since Boris Johnson’s Conservative party…
It is hard to exaggerate the influence that Edgar Cahn (who died last week aged 86) had on me – right back to when I first met…
We are delighted to be hosting a pre-publication event around RADIX founder, Joe Zammit-Lucia’s latest book: The New Political Capitalism: How businesses and societies can…
As the sound of COP26 fades away, we are wondering if there are any signs that the juggernaut of global warming may be turning. Will…
Why are we arguing again about appeasement, the Munich crisis and Neville Chamberlain, UK prime minister from 1937-40? The immediate hook is the film of…
Contrary to the fears publicly expressed by the Ukrainian government in December 2021, and later echoed by the US authorities, Vladimir Putin has no intention…
It seems increasingly unlikely that the “people’s priority” of levelling up will amount to very much during this government’s time in office. Lack of funds,…
After two years of Covid, politics in disarray in many countries, and increasing geopolitical tensions, it is easy to slide into a pessimistic outlook for…