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Rowan’s op-ed on why the past matters as we face a difficult future
Rowan’s article highlights the need to look and learn from the past to understand how we can prepare best for…
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Looking beyond our bubbles
By Kieran Madden
We are in extraordinary times, calling rightly for extraordinary measures. Although our vision of the future is obscured by the…
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Political “race to the middle” bereft of vision
By Alex Penk
Who is the real “party of infrastructure”? Is it Labour, who just announced that they’ll spend billions on roads and…
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Now is the time to take our changing future seriously
By Kieran Madden
The Government is dead-set on improving “wellbeing” as the mark of their leadership, and “long-term intergenerational wellbeing” in particular. This…
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When AI goes wrong
By Alex Penk
You may have heard that the robots are coming to take our jobs, thanks to artificial intelligence. But a…
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Funding roads in the electric future
By Julian Wood
In a recent blog, I made the case for regional petrol taxes, which would allow district and town authorities to…
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The future is not (only) digital
By Kieran Madden
“The Fourth Industrial Revolution” is upon us—the exponential rise in technology that is set to disrupt every aspect of our…
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Tax the robots?
By Julian Wood
We’re now quite used to dire predictions concerning the future of work, job stability, and automation. As far back as…
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The ‘un-meat’ needs of our regions
By Julian Wood
In 1798, Thomas Malthus, a controversial but influential political economist, predicted that the world’s population would soon outstrip its food…
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Changing the Story – Poverty panel discussion
By Maxim Institute
Every society tells a story about the good life, getting a fair go, or what it takes to live well….
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iDream of role models
Lives can change lives. Some have more impact than others. Some change others for the better, some for worse. At…
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