There has always been much discussion round history, culture and historic portrayal, but over the last few weeks it has exploded. The dis...

Unsurprisingly, I have received a number of suggestions regarding the most exciting thinkers of our world today. Here are the ones I have...

Celebrity thinkers – where have they gone? Growing up, I remember being transfixed by those ideas espoused by thinkers and philosophers, ...

Corona Virus, lack of jobs, increasing tension due to poverty and limited opportunity, the right to carry arms, genuine political protest...

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

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 need...

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 a...

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 s...

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 wh...

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 funn...

‘Magic and Loss: the Internet as Art’ and ‘The Phenomenon of Man’ Virginia Heffernan, author of ‘Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art’ (20...