“ WILD GOOSE” – A NEW NOVEL BY VERY ESTABLISHED WRITER AND POET – SALLY EVANS Sally is a poet working in long and formal styles. She was editor of Poetry Scotland broadsheet 1997-2018, and hosted the popular Callander Poetry Weekends that ran for nearly 20 years. She has published poetry widely in magazines and books, translated…
Jair Bolsonaro, is a low profile congressman for decades, former soldier and Army captain surprisingly won the 2018 Brazilian election, as the rise and rule of his nationalist, pro-business chauvinist, environmentally sceptical administration. The divisive presidential campaign saw fake news and misinformation shared with Bolsonaro’s tens of millions of social media followers. Bolsonaro promised simple…
Even before the advent of Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck, as it had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly , the environment crisis. Taking inspirations from the “Moonshot” programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, influential thinker…
Growth stagnant, inequality rising , Crisis seems to follow crisis, the environment is suffering and Covid-19 pandemic has exposed every crack in the system. The answer is to create a better capitalism by understanding and harnessing the power of creative destruction innovation that disrupts, but that over the past two hundred years has also lifted…
In the aftermath of World War One and Spanish pandemic left many looking to live their lives in new ways after unprecedented scale of the destruction in the battlefield and then closer to home. From the Reformation to the American Independence to the aftermath of the Second World War, experiments in Utopianism have arisen during…
Financial Times journalist and anthropology PhD, Gillian Tett’s Anthro-Vision is an essential reading for anyone working to rebuild a more equal world that solve twenty-first century problems. For centuries anthropologists have immersed themselves in unfamiliar cultures uncovering the hidden rituals that govern how people act. A new generation of anthropologists are using these methods in…
Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister identifies seven key areas of global crisis, and sets out a compelling argument for ensuring practical change to create a fairer, safer and more equal society, which includes global health, climate change, and environmental damage, nuclear proliferation, global financial instability, the humanitarian crisis and global poverty, the barriers to education…
Covid-19 killed millions already, hundred of millions of people are impoverished, and economic prospects across are being ruined, with death and recession to forefront. Rescue from Global Crisis is about how Covid19 rescue humanity. Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford, details an optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 which has…
British academic, Benjamin T Smith in The Dope exposes how an illicit industry that started with farmers, families and healers came to be dominated by cartels, kingpins and corruption. Smith traces the characters whose actions came to influence Mexico as we now know it. Enrique Fernandez, the borderlands trafficker who became Mexico’s first narco and…
Ever wondered what happens when artificial intelligence is shaping our understanding of ourselves, our societies and saturates our political life and depletes our planet? Dr Kate Crawford, senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, co-founder and director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media,…