Over the weekend it was the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA. These attacks precipitated the War on Terror and the Western led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. However you care to look at these wars the foreign policy outcomes achieved as a...

You know what it feels like when you achieve something that you have worked hard for. You know what it is like to succeed. You know what it is like to be properly listened to. You know what it is like to be supported and motivated. You know how good all these things...

I have frequently written about the fact that we need to make changes to the way we live. This applies to the systems of government, money, taxation, Earth stewardship, and level of cooperation, to name a few. And I have written about the fact that change starts with...

Life doesn’t always turn out the way that we would like it to. There are bumps in the road, surprises, shocks, and disappointments. It doesn’t matter how much progress we think we have made in life already; stuff still happens. How do we deal with the challenges that...

One of the things that makes me happy is reading books and learning something new. Right now, I am reading The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky. She is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her book is self-help backed by science....

In the second century of the common era Roman poet Juvenal satirically commented that all one needed to do to be successful as a politician was to satisfy the people’s desire for ‘bread and circuses’. Last week the footballing world was thrown into paroxysms of...

Real power comes from you. It only seems otherwise because we have been told and keep being told that is how the world works

The UK is focused on the passing of the Queen’s companion Philip this week. At Inspire 360 our focus was on the death of a past student, supporter, and bright light Steve Shergold. It was Steve’s idea for us to host a conference event so that we could share ideas...

What if John F Kennedy hadn’t been assassinated in Dallas in 1963? What if Franz Ferdinand hadn’t been assassinated in June 1914? What if the Roman Empire hadn’t collapsed in the West? What if the Americas had ‘discovered’ Europe? What if Harold Godwinson had defeated...

Last week the government published its roadmap out of Covid-19 measures. On the assumption that things go according to plan we still face 4 months of restrictions. In total, by the end of June the UK will have been under Covid measures for 15 months. The mental health...