The late, great Tony Gibson, the pioneer of UK community development, who I knew a little, used to talk about the origins of his vision…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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Since the 1980s, we have moved increasingly to a culture of rugged individualism. Our sense of community was relatively rapidly eroded. From Thatcher’s comments on…
I was recently asked to provide some comments on the issue of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs). These are small reactors built in a factory…
Back in the day, when I was studying International Relations and I majored on the international relations of Environmental Politics, I was introduced to the…
Faced with the Covid-19 epidemic, France must be right to look after itself. This virus is certainly more violent than the seasonal flu virus. But…
I fetch my daughter from university, plus all her boxes, books and plants – and bring her home. She’s a geographer and she and her friends…
In democratic government, the general rule is supposed to be simple: advisers advise, ministers decide, civil servants do. In the UK system, that emerged fully…
After the military humiliation suffered by his expeditionary force in Syria at the end of February 2020, the Turkish president decided to punish the European…
It is the best of times; it is the worst of times. It is a time of excitement and of fear, of enthusiasm and exhaustion,…
Since the weekend, I have been feeling almost permanently in a state of high anxiety, not particularly about coronavirus itself but its seemingly endless, economic,…
Geopolitically, the coronavirus pandemic, born in China in 2019 (Covid-19), has highlighted the failure of three ideologies: communism, Europeanism and globalism. The Chinese Communist Party…
In my previous commentary here, I made the point that what really matters in the economic and financial context of the coronavirus crisis isn’t what…