We have an art trail in my home town of Steyning, to coincide with a cut-down Steyning Festival over the weekend. And on the art…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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Democratic Senator Henry Scoop Jackson, the inspiration for the American neo-conservative movement, died in 1983. He must be turning in his grave at the spectacle…
Decided by the British people in the June 2016 referendum, Brexit is a decision to leave European institutions with an essentially economic vocation. It is…
The all-encompassing nature of social media makes it nigh-on impossible to entirely remove oneself from its clutches. The unprecedented past few months of lockdowns has…
This post first appeared in the newsletter of the Sensible Centre. Covid lockdowns have had many predictable impacts. But they have also had one surprising…
Twenty years after it started a war against them, America has given Afghanistan back to the Taliban. The Americans would have preferred a transition period…
Failure is meant to an orphan, but the debacle in Afghanistan is prompting an unedifying string of paternity suits. That the Afghanistan mission did fail…
Reading the latest IPCC report about the prospects for global warming has not been easy. Yes, there remains a glimmer of hope, but – when…
On Sunday, August 8, the Afghan Taliban captured three provincial capitals, including Kunduz, the major city in northern Afghanistan, located near the border with Tajikistan…
Of all the surprising encounters… On July 28, 2021, in Tianjin (a city located 50 km south-east of Beijing, towards the Yellow Sea), Wang Yi,…
In August 1967, three months after suffering a crushing defeat at the hands of a daring Israeli army well-equipped with French equipment, the Arab countries…
This is our 10-Point Plan for exiting the covid stalemate. 1. Australian governments should stop trying to eradicate community transmission of the virus. It cannot be eradicated….