I have just spent a couple of days in Paris. It was raining much of the time. But Paris is still Paris. In my meetings here, the contrast with…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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Yet another miserable journey home with Southern Rail (power supply problems again, or so they say), I found myself thinking about Britain’s brand new aircraft…
Europe is, once again, being left behind. The latest frontier in technology development is Artificial Intelligence. Two current trends should worry Europeans. The first is…
Some years ago, I was in the room when a consulting firm was pitching a mega-project to the president of research and development at a…
The story so far. Govia Thameslink won the franchise to run the Southern rail franchise and took over in early 2015. Thanks to their failure…
What problems might arise from tethering the value of money to an essential sustainable service of nature in each host bioregion of the planet? This…
The author Radical Middle, the campaigner Mark Satin, used the metaphor of roads and myopia to explain what he meant by the title. For Satin, it…
Vinay Gupta is a fascinating man, graduating from developing simple yurts to support refugees anywhere to working out the deeper implications of bitcoin, blockchain technologies…
After Milton Friedman famously proposed that the sole purpose of business enterprises should be to maximise shareholder value in an article in the New York…
A few days before the so-called Pestminster scandal began to bubble up, a picture of a famous piece of embroidery appeared on Sarah’s Facebook account….
That’s a big number. Probably too big for anyone to comprehend. It’s more than three times global GDP. And it’s the amount of outstanding global…
This post first appeared as a column in Town & Country Planning magazine… When I bought my house a few years ago, on the edge…