“Pain delivers progress.”Abhijit Naskar I was recently asked for my views on a sustainable transport policy for Hereford. Having said “I will write something for…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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A friend raises the question: “Did we overvalue American Democracy”? I’ll try two answers, one theoretical, the other about the possible aftermath of the attack…
Notwithstanding all these damned restrictions, we need to stay positive. Not about the virus! We must think how to transform the crisis into an opportunity…
Three years ago, we published a book entitled The Death of Liberal Democracy? Many of our friends and acquaintances were shocked that we would even…
The collapse of the Italian government was anything but unexpected. Ever since the demagogic League (Salvini’s Party) and the populist Five Stars Movement (5SM) signed…
So-called ‘sustainable development’… is meaningless drivel James Lovelock To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.Buckminster Fuller During the past…
It occasionally sends a frisson of political fear down the backbone when you hear about a centrist politician like Macron booed in affluent areas of…
Why would a relatively sane man like me (perhaps that is overstating the case) dare to risk tiptoeing back into questions of gender politics that…
“Liberalism made the modern world, but the modern world is turning against it. Europe and America are in the throes of a popular rebellion against…
Next Spring, European citizens will vote for the new European Parliament. There are many reasons to believe that 2019 elections will be the most significant…
Does middle-class still make sense? Metropolitan anonymous sprawl hides all sorts of marginalised people. Odd to say, but as proven by political voting behaviour, it…
The romantic mossy stones of Ruskin’s Venice and Charles Aznavour’s city transform to sadness when love vanishes. The contemporary Venice of old groceries stores and…