Over the Christmas and New Year period, I spent some time listening to a variety of podcasts. One of them was with an academic promoting…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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Mobocracy was discussed by Greek thinkers as long ago as the second century BC. It depicts takeover or coercion of legitimate authorities by ‘the mob’….
A short squeeze frenzy driven by a new generation of gamers captured financial headlines in recent weeks, centered on a struggling strip mall video game…
To liberal, internationally minded readers of this blog the numbers will be sadly familiar. In a national vote, a populist, nationalist, socially conservative platform whose…
I have been reading an amazing novel, Middle England by Jonathan Coe, which is an attempt to capture a nation at this peculiar point in…
The outcome of the election has, no doubt, many lessons to teach us. For me, I have learned one big lesson: in evaluating policy positions…
Let us take the case of Germany, often believed to be a paragon of hard-headed rationality and good economic management. When the Berlin Wall came…
This piece is about the single most important aspect of our re-imagining, writes Barry Cooper. The future will not be a different kind of “business as usual”….
Strongmen rule – Erdogan, Trump, Bolsonaro, Putin, Savini. Where Liberal Democracy and the ‘bourgeois parties’ fail to present their electorates with a strong, credible leader,…
How long will it take for the so-called liberal elite to work out two key things: (i) most people don’t think like them/us; and (ii)…
On October 7, in the first round of the Brazilian presidential election, by voting 46 per cent in favour of the populist MP and former…
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…