An old friend of mine from school (thanks, Pete!) sent me last week a long and sophisticated post about one of the great conspiracy theories…
An old friend of mine from school (thanks, Pete!) sent me last week a long and sophisticated post about one of the great conspiracy theories…
In the UK, Liberal Democrats still complain (not that anyone is listening), that they were treated unfairly by the electorate for their u-turn over tuition…
Dear Ed I very much enjoyed your first speech to the virtual Lib Dem conference this week. The party has survived so far, but rather…
In my previous blog, I revealed the earth-shattering findings of positive psychology – that money, a good body and buying stuff don’t make you happy….
Some brands’ and businesses’ appeal to their customers has always gone beyond the merely functional attributes of their products to appeal to higher level values…
My next door neighbour turned up at the care home, where his wife is dying, for her 90th birthday this week and was told he…
Altneuland – ‘Old New Land’ – is a utopian novel by Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, published in 1902. This blog is about an…
It feels like the end for President Lukashenko of Belarus, who has been in power since 1994. The autocrat massively defrauded the presidential election of…
I’ve just come back from lunch at a local place. The owner went into a rant about the illogicality of the government’s new rules around…
‘There is now covid-19 in my mother’s care home, although not on the dementia floor. The home was all over covid-19 specific advance care planning…
In December 1944, Robert Menzies opened a formation meeting of the Liberal Party of Australia in Albury NSW, saying: “Never in my life have I…
In this paper authors from POLITIKA, the Radix Youth Wing, recommend eight steps to make schools more resilient: Create comprehensive and effective contingency plans for…