'Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives' by Philip N. Howard “... Any framew...

Shared sustainable prosperity for all. I’m not a believer in miracles but I do love a bit of magical smarts. At the moment the world needs as much inspired c...

Putting the country back into the city … As a friend and I (heatedly) discussed recently, the opening up of the world post-covid is all about experts world-w...

We are all thinking about the future. Unsurprisingly, the future now has a very real demarcation point for most. D-day is post COVID-19 shutdown. And interes...

I am a writer, so to be cutting a pasting wonderful things from the web makes me feel like I am not doing my job. I admit, for someone who (pre-COVID-19) att...

The last thing you think of when facing a pandemic is the quality of cultural humour it will spur. And the blacker the situation the funnier the responses, s...

‘Magic and Loss: the Internet as Art’ and ‘The Phenomenon of Man’ Virginia Heffernan, author of ‘Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art’ (2016) has written a bo...

Life after COVID-19 I’m continuing Henry’s theme from last week and presenting my vision – as food for thought – of a post-COVID-19 world. The most 'Brave New...

Contagions Firstly, I am sharing a piece of propaganda sent to me by a girlfriend in Dubai that is currently doing the rounds in the Middle East. It adhere...

AGENCY William Gibson As we all feel like characters in a surreal landscape at present – and I do wish someone would tell me what my character should be feel...

ANNOUNCEMENT The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent virus threat and have therefore raised their threat level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soo...