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Now that much of the population is in enforced ‘furlough’ many of us are turning to making ourselves useful by entertaining our friends, neighbours and an international audience of social…

Whilst on my little blue dot yesterday, it struck me how quickly we've become watchers and judges of others' behaviours, particularly now we've got a nice clear set of rules…

Call Centre scripts strip frontline interactions of discretion and judgment—the very qualities customers are seeking when they pick up the phone and endure the hold music. When nuance calls, the…

When the House of Lords performs its role effectively, it is not obstructing democracy. It is preserving it.

We are living through a paradox of expertise. Never before has so much information been so accessible, processed so quickly, and presented with such confidence. Yet there is a growing…

We should listen to the scientists and definitely not drink disinfectant. In fact it doesn't really need a scientist to tell us that, does it?

The UK’s economic gloom is not just about interest rates, productivity or global headwinds. It is also about confidence. Many households and firms believe that further tax rises are not…

As political theorists have long argued, liberal societies are sustained not by unanimity, but by norms that allow disagreement without exclusion.

There’s no doubt that tragedy brings out the best in many people. Our responses as individuals and as a society to catastrophic events demonstrate conclusively our inherent compassion for those…

I listen to the 'Housing shouldn't be for profit, housing is a human right' argument in bewilderment that our education system has turned out supposedly intelligent people who can put…