Wednesday Blog

  • Designing Cities for People

    “As I have understood it, one league is equal to the distance a person can walk in one hour. For me, that is around three miles, thus making 1 league equal to a decent distance for a nice morning stroll.” Read more

  • Going forward from the U.K. General Election & Hung Parliament

    With the ballots counted in the U.K.’s General Election, what does the result mean and what will happen next? Read more

  • We Stand Together

    At this point in time, after so many terror attacks around the world in recent years, my initial reaction to the attack in London last night was somewhat muted and reserved. I was not surprised that it had happened; yet I was nevertheless deeply distressed that innocent people would be so brutally assaulted. The three Read more

  • Donald Trump and the slow death of American Federalism

    Today the world was flabbergasted and disgusted with our President once again. This time it was not due to his bullish techniques for getting in the front of a group picture, nor his obscene rudeness towards our closest European allies, nor even his disregard for the basic fundamental principles that all humans deserve equal treatment Read more

  • The Pope and the President

    “I hoped the Holy Father would invite the President to meet him in one of the Vatican’s charitable centres, perhaps in the homeless shelter that Pope Francis opened in January of this year, or in one of the city-state’s soup kitchens.” Read more

  • The Constancy of the Modern

    “Since it was first devised in the seventeenth century, this understanding of history has always held modernity as the pinnacle of human achievement, at least to that point.” Read more