We are in much less control of our lives than we think we are. In reality, the key to living a happy and successful life is often simply to be able to react well to the events that happen to you (from taking opportunities to accepting disappointments) rather then vainly attempting to control everything that
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My conversation in episode 8 of my podcast ‘Making the world better’ – out now – is with Dr Tilly Collins. Tilly is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, London. She runs research projects in a range of environmental areas, but in this episode we talk about her work
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My guest in the latest episode is Mike Buckley. Mike is a political campaigner who has been seeking social and political change for many years, most recently as head of the ‘Labour for a public vote’ campaign. I got to know Mike after my social change consultancy Praxis had prepared a report in 2019 to
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In the new episode of my podcast (out today), I talk to Professor Tom Kirkwood, a biologist who for several decades has been a leading figure in the study of aging – how and why we age. He has published several books, including Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human Aging and The End
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In the new episode of my podcast ‘Making the world better’ – out today – I speak to Tim Walker. Tim is a direct response copy writer and campaigner. Tim’s been a colleague and friend of mine for many years, and is the founder of the fundraising agency TWCAT, now On agency, and is a
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A new episode of my podcast is out today – and my conversation in this one is with Neal Lawson. I’ve been looking forward to sharing this one with you, as it’s important and fascinating! Neal is a political commentator and a director of the centre-left pressure group Compass. He was an adviser to Gordon
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I’m very excited to announce that my new #podcast ‘Making the world better’ is now live! In the podcast, I talk to people who are making the world better – not just those tackling big issues at a global scale but also those working at a local level or in less obvious areas too. I
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I’m very excited to announce that my new #podcast ‘Making the world better’ will be launching on 20th January 2020! In the podcast, I talk to people who are making the world better – not just those tackling big issues at a global scale but also those working at a local level or in less
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Decades on from my first involvement in the fight against climate change, we have still not found a way to get the change we need on this issue, and the urgency of the crisis is becoming greater every day. I was recently at a talk at the Hay literature festival by a leading environmentalist who
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Many of us with pro-environmental and liberal values have been feeling battered and under threat over the last three or four years as we’ve watched the rise of right-wing populism in our own country, in the US and around Europe. The evidence suggests however that this is not the whole picture – and in fact,
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