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by colin tudge Many were cheered by the election results in Britain on May 7 – a breath of fresh air! Hooray! But I found them seriously depressing. It is sad to see the end of Labour, possibly forever. The Tories, too, in their day, had touches of greatness. The rise and rise of the…

by colin tudge Britain has been sadly diminished these past few decades by a series of government follies. They include Eden’s hare-brained attempt in 1956 to reclaim control of Suez; Thatcher’s introduction of neoliberal economics in the 1980s; Blair’s gung-ho plunge into George W Bush’s disastrous war in Iraq in 2003; Osborne’s policy of austerity…

By Colin Tudge  Though many people in high places are in denial, no sensible – “ordinary” – person needs telling that the world is in deep trouble: deeper than ever before. There is disaster on every front: political, economic, social, ecological, climatic – and although many good things are happening the economic ideas and policies…

COLIN TUDGE PROPOSES A NEW, PEOPLE-LED INITIATIVE TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM TERMINAL DECLINE On every front there is disaster: ecological, social, political, economic, moral, spiritual; and, unsurprisingly, a pervading mood of pessimism and indeed of despair. Yet if only we – humanity – worked together, and did conceptually simple things well, we might still…

Renaissance is about hearts and minds – a change of worldview, a shift in the Zeitgeist. But how might this translate into the political and practical transformation that the world so urgently needs?  America’s and Israel’s war in Iran is of course unspeakably horrible as all wars are and for good measure, because of where…

THE THINGS WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT AND DO TO PUT THE WORLD BACK ON AN EVEN KEEL To bring about the Renaissance that is so urgently required we need: To rethink everything we do and take for granted from first principles; to rethink everything in the light of everything else; and to re-structure where…