I normally find myself in agreement with the NHS blogger Roy Lilley and last week – or perhaps it was last month – I especially…
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I normally find myself in agreement with the NHS blogger Roy Lilley and last week – or perhaps it was last month – I especially…
This post first appeared on the Politika website… In the place of the cancelled second debate between the two rivals for US President, there were…
This article first appeared in the newsletter of the Sensible Centre in Australia… Two weeks ago, three of the world’s leading epidemiologists met in Great…
Ever since I spent six months in 1990 developing a TV series for the BBC about the future (the year 2015, to be precise) –…
On 9 October, the French Republic was in a state of complete turmoil to welcome, in front of the television cameras, the hostage Sophie Pétronin,…
One of the great social and cultural critics of the last century, Ivan Illich, died 18 years ago now – and his teaching is largely…
This week, for reasons I won’t go into, I have had to travel to the US. I have to say that I did so with…
Call me naive if you like, but the Netflix series The Crown has been so good – in terms of design, atmosphere and acting, that…
In his speech at the inauguration of the huge ultra-modern hospital in Konya, a city located in the heart of the Anatolian plateau, 300 kms…
This post is adapted from my introduction to the new Radix pamphlet, The Urgent Future for Constitutional Reform… A week or so before the beginning…
The progressive mantra #buildbackbetter is seductive but essentially meaningless. The much-missed Guardian columnist, Simon Hoggart, used to apply a simple test to any political slogan:…