Europe is, once again, being left behind. The latest frontier in technology development is Artificial Intelligence. Two current trends should worry Europeans. The first is…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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Some years ago, I was in the room when a consulting firm was pitching a mega-project to the president of research and development at a…
Vinay Gupta is a fascinating man, graduating from developing simple yurts to support refugees anywhere to working out the deeper implications of bitcoin, blockchain technologies…
After Milton Friedman famously proposed that the sole purpose of business enterprises should be to maximise shareholder value in an article in the New York…
For more than a century across the western world, political movements, governments and public policy focused exclusively on states and markets, and ignored civil society…
We had what my youngest son used to call an ‘insect day’ at my eldest son’s school on Monday, so we spent the afternoon watching…
Maybe a decade and a half ago, I was a member of a committee set up by the Lib Dems to report on the party’s…
It wasn’t a short speech – and certainly not a snappy title: “Secure a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects…
The news yesterday that the doom-laden trade dispute, between the giant American planemaker Boeing and its small Canadian rival Bombardier, may have been resolved only…
It’s somewhat surreal when being balanced and reasonable counts as radical thinking. For decades, the UK has been beset with an obsession of pitting ‘private’…
Business scandals keep coming thick and fast. The banks, BHS and the disappearing pensions, mis-selling of mortgages and other financial products, the VW deliberate cheating…
It is almost ten years since the publication of one of my best books (I have to say this myself!). It was called Toward the Setting…