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…
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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…
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….