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I said I would be spending time thinking and that I would be revisiting my hastily written 2011 book, The Courageous State, when doing so.
I have done that, and am pleased with some of what I have found, although it most definitely has serious gaps within its structure. which my more recent work has been addressing.
But I liked my rediscovery that on page 114 I ...
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The need to stand and stare
Funding the Future | June 2026
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We need to learn to stand and stare...
We’re told to be busy.
We’re told to produce results, meet targets, hit deadlines and keep moving. We are taught that activity is a virtue and reflection is a waste of time.
I think that is one of the biggest mistakes modern society makes.
In this video, I use William Henry Davies’ famous poem Leisure to explore why creativity, imagination, innovat...
I posted this entry in the blog's glossary a year ago, yesterday. My thanks to Simon Slade for reminding me.
When there is so much discussion of what is called ‘defence’ at present, I think it is worth recalling that much of what is being said by so many on this issue is being manufactured for profit and gain by a few at the cost to most people in the world. That is wh...
The government and its former defence secretary, who resigned yesterday, have both claimed that the UK faces an increased defence risk and that, as a consequence, defence spending must rise s...