Hats off to the Chancellor for the Furlough scheme. It is well intentioned. It has, and will, alleviate much suffering. The problem is that it is severely regressive. And because it is regressive — far from contributing to the claimed government policy of levelling up — it intensifies inequality. 80%…

In today’s fast-moving and uncertain world we all need resilience, but also agility. My book on the subject published recently, is meant not just for business, but life in general. It argues to achieve effective agility you need to future proof yourself, and be grounded in timeless principles. Specifically, the…

It appears that Guilt Distancing is as important as Personal Distancing in the government’s own coping mechanisms for the current pandemic. Despite giving the impression of making it up as they go along, they claim the measures they are taking to avoid damage to their fellow citizens — in most…

Situational ethics began as something well intentioned. Writing in the 1960s, Joseph Fletcher was an American theologian who claimed that “all laws are contingent, and only valid if they happen to serve love.” Laws and rules are particular to the situation. If they don’t fit the situation, they can be…

All our own beliefs are obviously the right ones. They’re ours, so they must be. But the importance of questioning this has been brought into focus by the current discombobulation of Covid. My book, just published, Do Agile is about future proofing our minds by making our thinking more agile…

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” This important gap is often assumed to be Victor Frankl’s, the psychiatrist, who survived in a Nazi concentration camp where his pregnant wife…

My grandson is just three and absorbing new words like a sponge. My son-in law was explaining two new words to him — “husband” and “wife”. “Daddy, you can’t be mummy’s husband.” On quizzing him, the truth slowly emerged. On asking him why he couldn’t be my daughter’s husband he…

The insightful concept of the human capacity for pre-imagining grief comes from the rightly famous poem by the American poet, Wendell Berry. The poem — and the book that contains it — is called The Peace of Wild Things. It is just eleven lines long. It tells of him lying…

We live in a time of great anxiety, and great challenges. Covid19 has thrown much of our lives into turmoil. …