Scottish Unionist politician and Conservative thinker wrote in 1923, that to make democracy stable, the government needed to promote a property owing democracy, to meet the rise of socialism with constructive conservatism. Margaret Thatcher’s Right to Buy policy was one of the defining policies of her long tenure in Downing Street from 1979-90, aimed at…
Daniel Lavelle’s Down and Out, reveals his own experiences as well as those of witty and complex, hopeful individuals he has encountered who have been shunned or forgotten by the state that is supposed to provide for them- in order to shine a powerful light on this dire situation. Daniel Lavelle, a freelance feature writer,…
Britain voted to leave the EU, in 2016, according to a YouGov poll last month 54 per cent of UK adults think Brexit has gone badly, and only 16 per cent think it is going well. David McRaney, a science journalist, self-delusion expert, psychology nerd, and one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, used…
New Yorker reporter Ken Auletta while reporting a profile of Harvey Weinstein in 2002, received a disturbing tip: the Oscar-winning producer had sexually assaulted a young employee four years earlier at the Venice Film Festival. Although Auletta had heard rumors that Weinstein sexually abused women, he chose to honour non-disclosure agreements that protected Weinstein for…
Cultural historian, Hannah Rose Woods explores how the golden ages have haunted Britain since medieval times including the nostalgic 2012 Olympic summer when the UK seemed confident to its past imperial, European identity, and London laid claim to the title of the world’s greatest capital city, with its progressive, outward-looking mayor Boris Johnson. Danny Boyle’s…
South Asia was where for decades the “Great Game” in geopolitical rivalry of the two greatest modern empires- Britain and Russia- had dominated international relations. With the advent of Communism in Russia and growing nationalism and pan-Islamism in Afghanistan, Persia, and India, Britain’s imperial standing was under threat. Faced with these problems, some in the…
Chandran Nair, Founder of Hong Kong think tank and CEO of Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) reveal how a belief in the innate superiority of White people in Western culture, once the driving force behind imperialism, is now woven into the very fabric of globalization. Nair’s parents migrated from India and went to Kuala Lumpur…
Remember one of America’s most legendary diplomats, Henry Kissinger, now 99 is still writing books, find the soul in statecraft, profiles, and analyses six extraordinary leaders he has known, – Lee Kuan Yew, Adenauer, Nixon, de Gaulle, Thatcher, and Sadat to draw general lessons about character and intelligence of leaders who are architects to change…
Professor Lynda Gratton‘s thirty years of research into the technological, demographic, cultural, and societal trends that are shaping work and building on what we learned through our experiences of the global pandemic, has presented us with her four-step innovative framework for redesigning work that will help you. Gratton is the global thought-leader on the future…
Lahoud’s The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, its leader, and His Family, reveals the heroic tale of Americans and their work in the region. She pieces together a remarkable insider account of al-Qaeda’s history, based on the writings of bin Laden and his inner circle, and her conclusion…