I am about to confess something I’m not sure whether what remains of my reputation will survive it. It is true: I am getting a…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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I am prompted to write this by a reply I have received from my surgery to my request to receive booster jabs from the surgery:…
Just as we’ve all come up for air after the thrills and spills of conference season, we are plunged headlong into Budget Season. Is it…
On 21 October, when asked in public by a journalist about Taiwan, the current US president broke out of the strategic ambiguity that all his predecessors…
“Things fall apart,” wrote Yeats in 1919, during the flu epidemic, “the centrc cannot hold…” The best certainly lack all conviction, while the worst/Are also…
Labour is making important progress under Keir Starmer as the party seeks to recover from its worst election defeat since 1935, but it is clear…
During the next decade of de-growth and declining prosperity, some of the things we regard now as essential will become discretionary. How we used to…
To celebrate the seventy-second anniversary of its rise to power in Beijing with great fanfare, the Chinese communist regime sent some 40 military aircraft into…
Lack of fresh water is now a global crisis. Water shortages mean food shortages, with hunger creating death tolls substantially exceeding those of the current covid-19 crisis….
Throughout the pandemic we have seen numerous examples of neighbourliness and mutual support in communities, and a new-found openness and can-do spirit in public services….
Elections are generally lost not won. Throughout the trauma of Theresa May’s premiership and the paralysis of Johnson’s Government prior to the 2019 election, however…
On 15 September, the French felt they had received a ‘slap in the face’ when AUKUS, the strategic treaty in the Pacific, negotiated behind their…