An international disaster requires an international investigation. It’s a common sense assertion. Yet the Communist Party of China (CCP) does not seem to want to…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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In this paper doctors and co-authors participating in the planning of an important Covid-19 clinical trial have set out seven steps which they believe the…
This post first appeared, along with the cartoon, in the Australian Sensible Centre newsletter The momentous implications of the shutdown strategy imposed on the country…
I spent last Sunday walking on the South Downs Way to Chanctonbury Ring. Partly because it is a beautiful spot and party because I work…
“Ludendorff: The English soldiers fight like lions. Hoffmann: True. But don’t we know that they are lions led by donkeys.” Even though I did not…
The Overton Window is a model for how ideas change over time and how these ideas influence what happens in politics. It is named after…
I have written four plays before – they range from a full-length play about the Three Day Week in 1973/4 to an invocation to devolution…
My British and European friends have been playing a little game lately, trying to determine if the various responses to Covid-19 are somehow indicative of…
Some have argued that the political centre ground is moribund – overwhelmed by populist and extremist parties that have swept all before them. This session…
A year or so ago, when Radix was first gearing up, we decided to be a think tank that published novels – published one –…
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a harsh light on the uneasy relationship between science and politics. It is time to evaluate that relationship openly –…
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…