In 1930s eminent economist, John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the end of the century, the advance of technology would see us all working 15 hour week, but they were proved wrong, instead, today on average working hours have increased considerably. Now across the world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin that…
Lord Geoffrey Howe’s London’s Docklands in 1978, how dereliction created an opportunity, after his speech to Bow Group of Conservatives, and went on as Chancellor to produce an economic development zone which gave birth to the Canary Wharf financial centre. Forty years after Lord Howe’s speech derelict east London including Poplar, Bow, Lime House, Stratford…
Do you know how the latest technological advances in gene editing, social media, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our lives and societies, when we are more obsessed about immortality, divinity and bliss. The technology will give us the capacity to edit and direct our lives and our futures. Nigel Shadbolt, a computer science professor…
A Biography of Karl Marx one of the greatest thinkers of 19th-century rendering him more relevant than ever. A World to Win follows Marx through childhood and student days, his enduring friendship and intellectual partnership with Friedrich Engels, and Marx’s influences and explains his political and intellectual interventions and builds on the legacy of his thought,…
India one of the most divided nations on the planet aspiring to become the next superpower. James Crabtree reveals the titans of politics and industry-shaping India in a period of rapid change – from controversial Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the leading lights of the country’s burgeoning billionaire class. India is the world’s largest democracy, with…
Zimbabwean-born ex- Goldman Sachs economist, and a free market polemicist, Dambisa Moyo’s Edge of Chaos, reveals the economic failings of the west, as the advanced industrial economies are suffering from weak growth because their leaders so far have failed to take tough long-term policy decisions. “Liberal democratic capitalism has become weak, corrupt and oblivious to…
Mariana Mazzucato, the author, a professor at University College, London, in her latest challenging book reveals who creates value, who extracts value and who destroys value and explains the need to change course in the wake of soaring inequality and declining growth. According to Mazzucato we need to re-think relationships between governments and markets, make…
Curtis Sittenfeld, whose precious novel American Wife was a bestseller, but in her latest collection of short fiction she overturns assumptions about class, relationships and gender roles in a nation that is divided and creates characters that make a permanent mark in readers’ minds. In “The Prairie wife”, an Instagram star and portrays herself as…
This is the fascinating account of how public schoolboy Jim Swanton and Hampshire burr of the state school-educated John Arlott, the undisputed poet laureate of Test Match Special, two contrasting legendary voices resisted and lamented the rise of commercialised Twenty20 format which swept social and commercial changes that swept through cricket and Britain at large…
In 2015, Swedish professor of international health the late great Hans Rosling, asked an audience that included heads of state, titan of industry and a former UN secretary-general three multiple choice questions about poverty, population growth and Vaccinations rates, which resulted in scoring worse than Chimpanzees, doing just as badly as other audiences he had…