Jon Ronson, in his book The Psychopath Test, suggests that a significant number of our leaders – in business, industry and politics – are psychopathic….
Jon Ronson, in his book The Psychopath Test, suggests that a significant number of our leaders – in business, industry and politics – are psychopathic….
Every Parliamentary candidate should have to complete a formal application to match a job description and personal specification, according to radical centre think-tank, Radix. See…
In an interview published on 9 November, in the British weekly The Economist, Emmanuel Macron said that NATO was brain-dead. The metaphor is at the…
A recent profile of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in The Atlantic magazine argues that he is accumulating too much power in a way that is…
Those criticising Viktor Orban’s touting of the idea of ‘Illiberal Democracy’ hold it to be a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron. But much the same…
On Wednesday, the first full day of the 2019 election campaign, the anti-Brexit campaign group Best for Britain launched their tactical voting website GetVoting.org, which…
And so we have the denouement of the “blocked parliament” and the Brexit debate. It doesn’t take a great strategist or futurist to know what…
So we’re off to the polls in December for what is likely to be the most unpredictable general election in a long while. Nationwide, four…
At a recent event I was having a glass of wine with a member of Extinction Rebellion (ER). He had all the hallmarks of such…
I have to admit that, perhaps for the first time, I have become frightened for our democracy. I have lived through the Three-Day Week in…
In international relations, there is no worse message than ranting weakness followed by a retreat. Donald Trump has committed this mistake three times – over…
William Morris expressed the great paradox of political progress best in his fantasy 1888 novel A Dream of John Ball: “Men fight and lose the…