Trouble on the backbenches? Tory Leaders and their MPs
Despite winning a large majority at the last election, Prime Minister Johnson’s relationship with his party is an uneasy one. Just a few months after achieving its long term aim of leaving...
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Planning for the Worst
How ready are we for the next pandemic, cyber attack, volcanic eruption, or solar storm? Our world, ever more interconnected and dependent on technology, is vulnerable to a head-spinning array of disasters....
Is the Internet Broken?
The internet is a cornerstone of our society. It is vital to our economy, to our global communications, and to many of our personal and professional lives. But have the processes that...
Behavioural Science and the Pandemic
There were two narratives that emerged in the week before we locked down on 23rd March that could go some way to explaining why the UK was relatively slow to lockdown. One...
Humans vs the Planet
As -19 forced humans into lockdown, memes emerged showing the earth was healing thanks to our absence. These were false claims - but their popularity revealed how seductive the dangerous idea that...
Thinking for the Long Term
"The origin of civil government," wrote the Scottish philosopher David Hume in 1739, is that "men are not able radically to cure, either in themselves or others, that narrowness of soul, which...
The Post-Pandemic State
Government intervention on an unprecedented scale has propped up the British economy - and society at large - during the pandemic. But what should be the state's role from now on? Can...
Radical Self-Care
Wellness is easy to lampoon. A vast, trillion-dollar industry, at its worst it offers bogus cures, prescribing over-priced paraphernalia and dubious advice for ailments that might be treated elsewhere. But there is...
Modern Parenting
More time and money is being spent on children than ever before. And it's a global trend. Professor Tina Miller, who has studied how parenting styles have changed over several decades, considers...
The Smack of Firm Leadership
What does the way in which rival political systems around the world have managed the -19 pandemic tell us about the global political future? Writer and broadcaster, John Kampfner, considers what has...
