This post is a version of one that first appeared in Town and Country Planning magazine. When I first found myself writing about new ideas in the…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
Category: Tackling the Housing Crisis
results
(click here to filter)
The G20 meeting this week was more successful than one would have dared hope. Apart from the violence and street riots, that is. The meeting…
Whenever we hear of another disaster or whistle blow, we wonder how or why it happened. Why didn’t anyone say something sooner? and if they…
In 1978-9, the famous Winter of Discontent brought down the Callaghan government. At that time the Labour government was trying to enforce a 5% pay…
Some years ago now, I met the anthropologist Polly Wiessner, the expert on the complex network of reciprocal obligations in the culture of !Kung bushmen….
They used to say that the interest rates of British banks were controlled by the eyebrows of the governor of the Bank of England. If…
Where are the best broadband services in the UK? Hands up anyone who guessed Hull. In 1904, “a quirk of history gave Hull and East…
All good ideas and good policies become bad ideas and bad policy when taken too far. This is true as much in politics as it…
The GDP of Russia is $1.3 trillion, about the same as Spain’s. The GDP of the European Union is 15 times the size. Angela Merkel’s…
Back in the 1829, a strange rumour spread through the London poor that those in workhouses were being fed on the bodies of the dead….
There are so many candidates for regular circles of life these days, from Halley’s Comet to the Kondratieff Cycle. I have been arguing for a…
It has been an exhausting and unexpected night. One we will always remember, even more extraordinary than February 1974 – which I can barely remember…