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...

I’m sure many of you will have heard of or read Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. Drawing on several, mainly eastern, philosophical approaches Tolle asserts that negative emotions arise from our failure to live our lives in the present moment and from our habit of...

The old year yields to the new. Will the new year be better? Will you do better? Will the country be better? Does the World get better? Inevitably the new year brings thoughts of change with it. And this year there is real change. The UK is now firmly in a...