We often see businesses accused of greenwashing in the media. McDonald’s was questioned about its decision to get rid of…
Wall Street Journal: In a Concentration Camp, Dreams of a Café
Jewish communities have suffered a spate of horrifying anti-Semitic attacks on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet survival has always…
The Sunday Times Raconteur: Can you change your unconscious biases?
Unconscious bias training has become the go-to diversity training for large companies. Almost 20 per cent of US companies offer…
Standpoint Magazine: Ironies of Ideology
On a recent visit to the Royal Academy, I noticed a tall, elegantly dressed man who spent quite some time…
Standpoint Magazine: Viennese rooms with a point of view
“Austria comes alive on my divan,” said Berta Zuckerkandl, and this was an understatement. An influential journalist and art critic,…
Standpoint Magazine: City where history is still being made
Long before either Ukraine or Russia existed, there was Kiev. For centuries, the city’s residents have been sauntering along the…
The Times’ Raconteur: Exploring the dark side of frictionless shopping
When it comes to shopping, convenience is the name of the game. Increasingly, one-click buying, contactless payments and same-day deliveries…
Financial Times: How to create a golden age
What makes a genius? Since at least the 19th century, some have said it is down to genetics, while others…
Times Literary Supplement: Whose London is it anyway?
Tucked away between office buildings by Euston station is where I found the Camden People’s Theatre. It’s a little place…
Times Literary Supplement: Does philosophy have to be obscure?
I recently went to a public lecture at LSE hosted by the Forum for European Philosophy. The discussion was entitled…
Standpoint Magazine: Wholesome homes
One of the 20th century’s main advocates of high-rise tower blocks was the architect Ernő Goldfinger. To address the acute…
The Times’ Raconteur: Should robots be expected to make ethical decisions?
While robots can’t be ethical agents in themselves, we can programme them to act according to certain rules. But what…
The Sunday Times’ Raconteur: Can money buy happiness after all?
Imagine you’re on your way back from work and you pop into a shop. You weren’t looking for anything in…
The Times’ Raconteur supplement: Taking the emotion out of trading
We are not rational thinkers, but emotional creatures when it comes to making financial decisions. This idea has been gaining…
The Economist’s 1843: The malleability of our minds
A new show about consciousness takes a terrifying look at how scientists, philosophers and artists deal with “the hard problem”…
The Times’ Raconteur supplement: Could AR and VR transform surgery forever?
Why don’t surgeons have coaches, just like top athletes and singers? Medical professionals are expected to deliver care in a…
The Sunday Times’ Raconteur: Rise of the robot mediator
Jonathan Verk, co-founder of coParenter, has first-hand experience of a bruising marriage break-up. “Six years ago, I started going through…
Times Literary Supplement: Engage neutral
In his previous book, The Shallows, Nicholas Carr argued that the Internet diminishes our power to concentrate and contemplate. Now…
Money Observer: The easiest way to travel is by train
I have lived in London for many years, and I still can’t tell King’s Cross from St Pancras station. But…
Money Observer: Where automation only half-replaces humans
Much has been written about how automation will replace humans in the workplace. But what about those who have only…
The Times’ Raconteur supplement: Why impact investing isn’t just for millennials
The young are vocal about climate change, pollution and inequality. Last year, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg was catapulted to fame…
Money Observer: Fertility and other surprising ways to spot a recession
Economists look to house prices, GDP and retail sales to predict the next recession. But a new study says we…
Standpoint Magazine: Tunnel Vision
Winston Churchill’s half-smoked cigar sold for $12,000 at a US auction in October. A hand-written note by Albert Einstein on…
Times Literary Supplement: Of lesbians and constipation
Public opinion on journalists has always been influenced by how they – or should I say we – are represented…
Money Observer: Is it time to invest in biotech?
Drug prices pose an ethical dilemma. On the one hand, treatments should be affordable to those who need them, but…
Times Literary Supplement: How to date a feminist
There were ten men in an audience of about a hundred at How To Date a Feminist, a new play by…
Jewish Chronicle: An interview with Deborah Levy
Hot Milk, the book for which Deborah Levy has been nominated for this year’s Man Booker Prize, explores hypochondria and…
Standpoint Magazine: Found In Translation
Guy de Maupassant is considered the greatest short story writer in French literature. He is often said to have defined…
Standpoint Magazine: Israel’s Impish Ice-Breaker
The first time I came across the Israeli short-story writer Etgar Keret was through a comment he made about Franz…
Standpoint Magazine: Underrated – Jackie Mason
He may be America’s greatest living comedian, but if you relied on British television you might never have heard of…
The Economist’s Intelligent Life Magazine: Saul Bellow’s Introspection
Notes on a Voice: Marina Gerner pins down the work of a Nobel prize-winning novelist who revealed the inside through…
Times Literary Supplement: How to be an intellectual
“Journalism and scholarship usually inhabit different planets”, Jeffrey J. Williams writes. Journalists and academics have different gods and languages. While…
Standpoint Magazine: Beards need not apply
Women who engage in public speaking are seen as “freakish androgynes”, argued classics professor Mary Beard in her recent London Review…
Times Literary Supplement: Book Review of Simon Blackburn’s “Mirror Mirror”
Simon Blackburn credits L’Oréal’s slogan, “because you’re worth it”, as a source of outrage and inspiration for Mirror, Mirror: The uses…
Standpoint Magazine: Phoney Freedom
When telephones were still a rare possession, the French artist Jean-Louis Forain decided to install a telephone in his town…
The Economist’s Intelligent Life Magazine: The CEO and the Not-So-Smart-Quote
Sometimes a chief executive must hope that an unwise quote from a while back would just curl up and die.…
First Things Magazine: Taking Art Off the Street – Museums are giving street art a home, but at what cost?
“Street art—you mean vandalism? No, thank you.” That was the response of a friend when I invited him to join…
