Things Unseen
A GOD-SHAPED HOLE? Podcast hosted by Mark Dowd, with Peter Stanford, Mark Vernon and myself.
ReadAuthor: Julian Baggini
The Lost Lectures
LOST LECTURE ON THE VIRTUES OF THE TABLE. The best short introduction to my book is this short video.
ReadThe city that plays together, stays together
The Playable City movement can be seen as a creative response to the coldness and anonymity of the urban environment, which technology threatens to make even worse. Play is about interrupting the utilitarian efficiency of the urban environment and getting people to think about what actually makes us human.
ReadAs consumers, do we have double standards?
People still shop as though ethics were some kind of optional extra, relevant only to a few premium purchases. Consumers tend to operate according to a double-standard: they are outraged when companies do not ensure they source ethically but they do not often make much effort to source ethically themselves.
ReadSomething rotten in the town of Rotherham
Denis MacShane, Dolly Parton, Jamie Oliver, Ukip, the BNP and the sex-abuse scandal are connected by a failure of the political classes to deal with the problems faced by those left behind in post-industrial Britain. Political parties have not focused enough on society’s losers, finding it more expedient to chase the swing voter and morally easier to call for multiculturalism. What we are now seeing with the rise of Ukip, however, is that dodging the hard issues is socially corrosive and electorally dangerous.
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