Controversial Idea #2
Government doesn’t create jobs, businesses create jobs. That was the slightly harsh answer I gave someone at a dinner party this week when they asked me how government and politicians were going to create jobs. My answer wasn’t well received by my dinner guest as she suddenly thought I was some right wing neo-liberal nut. […]
2.5million Year History of Leadership
Just watched a very interesting video of psychologist Mark van Vugt fusing evolutionary history and science to show how the evolution of leadership affects us all. Some interesting ideas I took from it include: That democracy may have started in the African savannah and not in Greece. The reason human brains may be larger than […]
Is the 4 Hour Work Week possible?
In the 1960’s we were all told that we would soon be entering the ‘leisure generation’ and as someone who seems to sit between Generation X & Y I often wonder what happened to this promise. Our parents were baby boomers, the children of joyful post-war reunions who are responsible for some of the greatest […]
What A Week!
This week has been one of the most intense, creative and rewarding weeks of my life. It was a week three passions in my life, politics, music and business, were all in play and I got to test myself in all three areas. On Monday I attended the Liberal Democrats Policy Roadshow in Edinburgh where […]