On Monday, a Maltese investigative journalist was blown up by a car bomb. I had never met her, but her husband is an old friend. We…
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This post is taken from the newsletter of the Schumacher Center for New Economics. The rise of so many right-wing nationalist movements around the world—Brexit,…
Electric cars – in fact electric everything – is pushed by the environmental movement as one vital part of the solution to climate change. True,…
Despite being a devout atheist Jew, there are still some Christian figures for whom I have a certain admiration. These are admittedly minor figures in…
This post is taken from my Padua address at the launch of Radix Italy (see full text). Everywhere in the world we are seeing a…
I am a huge admirer of Paddy Ashdown’s new political movement, More United. Yes, it sounds like a new kind of football club. But I…
It’s a red letter day for economics. Richard Thaler has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. This is not just any old economics prize….
Things look different from bottom up. So when we think about the future, we have to do so fully conscious of the assumptions we make…
It’s somewhat surreal when being balanced and reasonable counts as radical thinking. For decades, the UK has been beset with an obsession of pitting ‘private’…
These last few days, I spent some time talking to my Spanish wife and her friends about events in Catalonia. None of them are Catalan….
Sometimes all you can rely on, to understand some sense of the direction events are taking us in, is a sense of history. As such,…