Demographers are starting to talk about global population decline, with alarm. Why is population decline alarming? The world has gone through periods of catastrophic population…
Demographers are starting to talk about global population decline, with alarm. Why is population decline alarming? The world has gone through periods of catastrophic population…
Danny Kruger closed the recent Radix Big Tent leaders’ summit by suggesting that community land trusts (CLTs) should become much more common. He was echoing…
December 24 is when Germans celebrate Christmas, on ‘holy night’, gathered together in small family groups perhaps before visiting Midnight Mass, a tradition played out…
Nowhere, wrote the economic historian Karl Polanyi several decades ago, has liberal philosophy failed so conspicuously as in its understanding of the process of change….
On 12 November, a major international conference on Libya was held in Paris, co-chaired by the leaders of France, Germany and Italy, as well as…
I agree with the commentary that Richard Rogers, our favourite British architect, was a giant. But I did cross swords with him once – the…
Read foreign media, you Numpties! Normally, I like to meander my way to my conclusion in the style of a normal columnist. I lay out…
In yet another week of white, hot outrage in Parliament, John McNally MP (SNP, Falkirk) bravely rose on his hindlegs and asked the Prime Minister…
This may seem a peculiar post to write on a thinktank blog, yet writing it is a result of my sense that beliefs are at…
And so we have it…. While Britain flounders on under Boris Johnson and its obsession with cross-channel immigrants, sleaze and Peppa Pig, the bank-manager-like Olaf…
‘Levelling-up’ is an effective slogan. Just like ‘Get Brexit Done’ before it and ‘Take Back Control’ before that. As painful negotiations with the EU continue,…
Within the worlds of finance, business and politics, decision makers often have little understanding of the other spheres and their importance; the language and discourse…