My new book ‘Humanise’ contains a rich set of insights about human beings, the challenges we face and how we can build a better world. Below is a very short summary of 5 key points to help open it up so you can see what’s inside: We need to understand human beings better in order
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Our understanding how human beings think and behave is one of the most important tools we have available to make our world and our lives better. Yet, we are failing to use this knowledge. A couple of decades ago, psychology was released into the real world in a discipline that has become known as ‘Behavioural
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I’m very pleased to report that my new podcast series is out now! ‘Humans and Hope’ is a podcast about human behaviour – and our hopes of building a better world. Check it out here – and you’ll find links there to all the usual podcast providers. In this new series, I want to challenge
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Here’s a new idea rather than a new, fully formed initiative – putting it out there to see if people would find it interesting. There are hundreds of places and sites around the world that have an amazing story to tell – from the Trinity site in the Nevada desert where the first atomic bomb
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We’re living in a time when it’s increasingly difficult to tell fact from fiction, discern a real news story from a PR puff piece, understand what a politician is really trying to say, escape from the influence of advertising or work out how to manage our kids’ lives online. We’re surrounded by hot air, interest
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I’ve just completed a booklet for Life Squared that has turned into a book! It’s a piece of work that I’ve been putting off for years as I knew it would be large and complex, but I’m delighted to have finished it as I think it’s a critical issue, yet one that hasn’t been exposed
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In the current political climate, I’ve not been surprised to see a particular question raised more than once – namely, does a proper left wing movement/party stand a chance in Britain? I’ve seen articles saying it doesn’t, and arguing that no really left wing party has held power since the early 70s. So, is Britain
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As the summer holidays come to an end, I’m sure many people will have had a similar experience to me of travelling abroad and realising how much Europe as an overall idea means to them. Travelling to Germany and Italy, I’ve been aware of how connected I feel to these countries and people, as well
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One of the key dangers of Brexit (aside from not insignificant others like the damage to our economy, the impact on the lives of Europeans and the barrier this has driven between people in British society), is that it will trigger an even more pronnounced lurch to the right in this country’s politics. So, what
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The world feels like a depressing place at the moment. Shootings in Orlando, the rise of Trump, refugee crises, dubious rhetoric in the Brexit debate – the list goes on. We’re about to launch a new Life Squared booklet soon called ‘How to be civilised’ which examines some of the lessons that we can draw
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