The news yesterday that the doom-laden trade dispute, between the giant American planemaker Boeing and its small Canadian rival Bombardier, may have been resolved only…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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Electric cars – in fact electric everything – is pushed by the environmental movement as one vital part of the solution to climate change. True,…
The 2017 Conservative Party general election manifesto was a departure in many ways from the Thatcherism that had been the party’s outward ideological core for the…
Business scandals keep coming thick and fast. The banks, BHS and the disappearing pensions, mis-selling of mortgages and other financial products, the VW deliberate cheating…
It is almost ten years since the publication of one of my best books (I have to say this myself!). It was called Toward the Setting…
I am sitting in a conference listening to a presentation by Luc Tissot, the current CEO of the Tissot watch company in Switzerland. He points…
Don’t let’s carp about the way that government has developed in the UK – there is no doubt that, in two ways in particular, they…
They all wanted a change from what they were doing. They wanted to be more useful. “I’d like to leave something better behind me than…
For many it’s a disappointment. Some have no doubt heaved a sigh of relief that nothing very substantive is going to change. This week the…
Published in the Financial Times, August 25, 2017 Sir, Tony Barber, in “Politics motivates Silvio Berlusconi’s parallel currency idea” (FT.com, August 22), notes that critics…
I always listen to the actor Adrian Dunbar. Partly because he shaped my favourite film (Hear My Song) and partly because he is exactly my…
It is more than 17 years now since, I gather, I coined the phrase ‘virtual currencies’. I know this because of Wikipedia which tells me…