Throughout the pandemic we have seen numerous examples of neighbourliness and mutual support in communities, and a new-found openness and can-do spirit in public services….
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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In 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Paddy Ashdown published a short and visionary book called Citizens’ Britain: A Radical Agenda for…
With the German federal elections, the era of Angela Merkel draws to a close. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson believes he may enjoy a decade in power…
This post first appeared at Orcop.com Unexpected floods, storms and fires, throughout the world has prompted me to make the point that the future must…
This post firs appeared in the newsletter of the Australian Sensible Centre. The contract signed by the Australian government to purchase 12 Attack-class submarines from…
I am reading such a good book in the bath at the moment (this isn’t a backhanded compliment – I read nearly all my books…
In case anyone is at all interested, I have begun a peculiarly fearsome diet called the Wahls Paleo Plus – which involves eating very little…
Here is our Blueprint for Government. 1. No more enquiries. We don’t need any more Royal Commissions, reviews or enquiries. We have all the information we…
Mobocracy was discussed by Greek thinkers as long ago as the second century BC. It depicts takeover or coercion of legitimate authorities by ‘the mob’….
This article appeared in Times of Malta and Medium At the G10 Meeting in Rome 1971, US Treasury Secretary John Connolly proclaimed to his (mainly…
What was it about the 1870s? Now beyond the horizon of history – the oldest generation still alive today probably met nobody who remembers that…
Environmental politics has come a long way in the last couple of decades. From being a marginal political issue associated with sandal-wearing tree-huggers who lived…