Brexit succeeded on the basis of a pledge of spending £350 million a week on the NHS – if not honoured – what’s next? Dag Detter has a solution …

The solution to the NHS funding crisis? Its property The only way for the National Health Service to avoid years of deficits is for it to outsource its buildings to professional management companies Dag Detter – The Guardian – Thursday 9 March 2017 11.30 GMT The NHS was offered little relief in Wednesday’s budget. The proposed […]

Mary Aiken Technology Speaker

New Speaker – Dr. Mary Aiken CyberPsychologist and author of “The Cyber Effect”

Dr Mary Aiken is the world’s leading expert in Forensic Cyberpsychology which is a discipline that combines psychology, criminology, and technology to investigate the intersection where technology and human behaviour meet. She has a Masters of Science in Cyberpsychology and a PhD in Forensic Cyberpsychology, her research interests include cyber security, cyber-reporting of crime, cyberstalking, virtual […]

Participatory Democracy

Democracy seems to be the word for 2017 – Participatory Democracy is vital if we are to combat the challenges that we are facing as a planet on an individual basis. MiVote is an information platform that presents you with a variety of perspectives on all major issues up for debate in the Australian Parliament […]

Happy New Year … We are kicking off our blog with a brilliant TEDx Talk by one of our most demanded speakers Philippe Legrain

“Refugees are not a burden,” says critically acclaimed political economist and commentator Philippe Legrain. Based on his experience as founder of Open Political Economy Network (OPEN) and writer of numerous books on the subject, Legrain shares how opening our arms to refugees can yield economic dividends. In his talk, Philippe states that refugees are creative, […]

2016 has been an extraordinary year for a number of reasons not least the election of Donald Trump – In our final blog for 2016 – Thomas Wright our Trump Expert profiles his top cabinet picks and what they represent …

ORDER FROM CHAOS Trump’s team of rivals, riven by distrust Thomas Wright -The Brookings Institution –  Thursday, December 15, 2016 Editor’s Note: President-elect Donald Trump’s top cabinet picks—including Mike Flynn, Jim Mattis, and Rex Tillerson—represent different foreign policy and national security factions, writes Thomas Wright. Together, they could fundamentally alter U.S. foreign policy. This piece originally appeared […]

The Economist have republished this 2007 piece on Immigration by Philippe Legrain. His thinking back then is very relevant now.

Immigrants – Waves of fear In a controversial new book a British economist asks why so many people are against the free movement of labour Philippe Legrain – The Economist 2007 FOR years now, free trade and free movement of capital have been respectable economic tenets, espoused—if sometimes reluctantly—by most politicians. But no sane politician in […]