Reckoning on resilience
I am writing this from southern France where we are taking a break in early July to avoid the heat of August. However, over the next few days the temperature …
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The seduction of AI
ChatGPT: a conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel good. I am going to come clean. I am an enthusiastic user of artificial intelligence (AI) or at …
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The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, a key international authority, published its latest report in October 2025. Its conclusions were damning: “More than half of the world’s …
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On 7th December 1972, Harrison Schmitt took an image of the Earth from Apollo 17 on its way to the Moon that has become one of the most reproduced images …
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In a White House Rose Garden address on April 2, 2025, Trump declared that April 2 was “Liberation Day”, describing the announcement as “one of the most important days in American …
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Days of future passed
Currently, everyday events are unfolding that are likely to play a significant role in future histories. The USA is no longer a dependable European ally, at best; the US government …
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Merry morality
It is that time of year. We are not a religious family, yet we attended our local church’s atmospheric Christmas Eve midnight mass, complete with candles and carols, as many …
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At the flip of a billion coins
Can finance provide what humanity needs? As we approach 1.5ºC average warming, nature collapses, and conflicts escalate, this must be a reasonable question. Or is it naïve as finance is …
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The gravity of the situation
I grew up in the 70s in a world where there was a sense of expanding progress. The great wars were behind us and even when Thatcher/Reagan pushed dog-eat-dog neoliberalism …
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Take heart
Challenging the Econocrats – those people who use mainstream economic thinking to define political debate – is not for the faint-hearted. Their failure to even envisage the possibility of the …
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