William Hague gets on board
William Hague has caught the bug for democratic lottery. And he writes about it well. This simple sentence is a nice little microcosm. “Social media...
Michael Polanyi in 1960 on Teilhard de Chardin on evolution
Michael Polanyi was highly suspicious of the hyper-reductionism of neo-Darwinism. It’s reduction of the evolution of a thing so vast as life into a single...
Democracy: doing it for ourselves
https://youtu.be/6uPex480hRU Above is the video of a presentation I made at NESTA in London on 15th November with discussants Claire Mellior and Martin Wolf. I...
The Voice For John Stuart Mill
The biggest winner from the referendum on the weekend is John Stuart Mill. There’s a strand of left-wing orthodoxy these days that deprecates free speech...
Sotto Voce: The case for an informal vote
I find it hard to understand how passionate some folks are about voting Yes or voting No. Not because I do not understand passion, but...
The academy and partners try wellbeing frameworks
I discover that I don't seem to have cross-posted this old essay previously published in the Mandarin, and since this is my place of record...
The unbearable lightness of grey academia: note to self
Wikipedia defines 'grey literature' thus: Materials and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels. Common grey literature publication types include...