I was recently chatting to the chairman of a FTSE 100 company. I suggested that the UK economy reminded me of a failing company in…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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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…
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…
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….
One of the irritating elements, among so many, of the current general election campaign is the way that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has dragged debate…
Climate change policy is in flux. At the G7 meeting in Taormina, Donald Trump refused to commit to the Paris climate agreement goals and it…
The exhausting general election campaign confirms what was in effect Parkinson’s Third Law. His more famous first law is known by almost everybody – that…
A report in the Financial Times has suggested that business leaders are frustrated by a perceived loss of influence in Theresa May’s administration – what they…
Published in the Financial Times Martin Wolf makes some powerful points on the progressive loss of faith in free markets and free trade (Conservatism buries…
At his press conference announcing the Bank of England’s Inflation Report in February this year, Governor Mark Carney joked that the central bankers’ 15 minutes…
It was something of a moment of revelation – a wake-up call – when what passes for a general election campaign suddenly saw a bizarre…