New York Times contributor Kate Murphy, reveals countless conversations she had had with everyone from priests to CIA interrogators, focus group moderators to bartenders and proves how only by listening well can we truly connect with others. Listening has the potential to transform our relationships and our working lives improve our self-knowledge and increase our…
Trump administration is the leakiest administration since the Founding Fathers created parchment, much of what happens behind the scenes in nearly real-time accompanied by the running commentary from the President’s Twitter account. Washington Post reporters Philip Rocker and Carol Leonnig reveal Trump at his unvarnished, showing the unhinged decision-making and incompetence that has floored officials…
In the great financial crisis of 2007-2008, finance came too close to wrecking the global economy. The presence of rogue behaviour in finance, Nesvetallova and Palan turns to the economist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) who observed that businessmen were proficient at making profit by interfering in markets, and wrote “ something in the nature of…
In the 1970s when social historian Jane Robinson was at high school, there were only four options for British girls to fill up the time between leaving education and getting marries – secretary, nurse, teacher, and hairdresser. Robinson who wanted to go to university despite discouraging career adviser saying “ a degree was no…
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline intended to connect Moscow and Germany, opposed by the US, which has imposed a series of sanctions in an attempt to stop it, as well as by several other EU member states. When Angela Merkel met Vladimir Putin, after the US military killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in a…
A couple of months ago, the heads from 18 small British telecoms companies met at a London bank to discuss investment, strategy, and mergers. In the meeting, they were asked if they thought the Chinese could eavesdrop through back doors in Huawei equipment all 18 hands went up. One of the bankers then asked, if…
The art form of yoga is no longer the preserve for hippies or hip-millennials, as a multi-dollar industry with varieties including hot yoga, naked yoga, beer yoga, and doga have taken over. The Indian spiritual discipline is a £20billion-a-year mainstay of the wellness industry. Shearer reveals a cultural cast of characters past and present in…
This is the life memoir of a young start-up employee, who offers clues as to how and why at the height of 2010 start-up boom they were ubiquitous and now they seem to have disappeared. Uncanny Valley gives an insight with a time-lapse of the past seven years in Silicon Valley- from giddy days of…
This is the story of the world’s most controversial product tobacco’s fortunes and how science triumphed over addiction. The US has been active in picking economic winners and losers with price supports for farmers, regulatory interventions and outright state funding for innovation through the Defense Research Projects Agency. From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man,…
New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines as advances in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk. So how can we thrive in a world with less work? Susskind reminds us that technological progress could bring about unprecedented prosperity, but the challenge will be…