November 6, 2022
Pity the Eight Billionth Child on Planet Earth
I hope you’ve got Tuesday November 15th marked up in your diary? According to the UN’s population wonks, that’s the day when the eight billionth human being will be born. Not sure…
July 24, 2022
Becoming Good Ancestors
The vast majority of parents would hope that they’re doing everything they can to ensure their children will inherit a better world. Unfortunately, the vast majority of parents…
August 13, 2020
Recognising the power of young activists
My principal reason for writing Hope in Hell was the new-found sense of purpose that the Schools Strike movement and the XR protests had given me in the first half of 2019.
February 19, 2020
Citizens Assemble – Government Stumbles!
Frankly, it’s been humiliating watching our Prime Minister make such a pig’s ear of hosting this year’s Conference of the Parties in Glasgow in November. This is by far and away…
February 23, 2018
Women in Construction: InspireMe!
One of the most pressing challenges for the construction sector in the UK is its appalling record on recruiting women – and then retaining and developing their careers within the…
November 29, 2017
The State of American Democracy
How often have you heard something like this: ‘Well, the situation here in the UK may be dire, but things aren’t half as bad as they are in America!’ I’ve said it myself, mostly…
October 19, 2016
Social Sustainability: Tackling the Confusion
Forum for the Future has always been totally committed to the idea of ‘full spectrum’ sustainability, embracing environmental, economic, social and governance issues. Far too many…
April 26, 2016
‘Resurgence’: Sharing our Views of the World
Imagine that Resurgence didn’t exist. Imagine that you and a group of like-minded colleagues decided that the world badly needed a new publication that would have a number of…
March 15, 2016
Beware the March of the Authoritarians!
Bit by bit, the true authoritarianism of this Government is revealing itself. Way back in 2011, in what now feels like the good old days, myself and Bethan Harris (a colleague in…
February 26, 2016
Values, Global Citizenship and the EU Referendum: a Mind-Boggling Mindset Mash-up!
I don’t feel good about this, but I can’t help despising most of the people involved in the Brexit campaign: Nigel Farage, Iain Duncan Smith, Norman Tebbit, Owen Paterson, George…