Current

• During the Pandemic, “How to Make Democracy Work’ was published; the book takes a position on many issues.

  The third chapter addresses the changing world of work in the face of the social transformations resulting from Artificial Intelligence.

  Since the industrial revolution, wages have provided the mechanism by which human production has been rationed out. That is except for the millions of people excluded from the market economy and marginalised into gridding poverty. Now in the 21st century, as income inequality widens and monopoly power makes a few people staggering rich, we need to re-examine the fundamental relationship between work and reward. In the meantime, we need a Universal Basic Income

Future Posts

• The Good Life and Flourishing
• Artificial Intelligence and Technical Unemployment
• Economic Inequality and decline
• Source of Funds
• Limites to Growth
• What do we do about unemployment?
• Basic Income

Current

• During the Pandemic, “How to Make Democracy Work” was published; the book takes a position on many issues.

  The book takes a stand on Drug regulation and, for the first time, puts a monetary cost on the current punitive campaign. It also proposes changes to the way Big Pharma is regulated.

  Declining and low levels of citizen engagement in public life sparked the creation of Hive, which, for the first time, offers a new model for engagement and overcoming social isolation.

Future Posts

• Flighting Obesity
• The War on Drugs
• Counting the Cost of the War on Drugs
• Big Pharma and Taking their Medicine
• Telehealth
• Adventures in Health
• Prison Reform
• Hive – citizen engagement

Current

• 2025 in the UK. It includes three headline proposals to help us achieve the target.

  1)Switching to public ownership of electric cars. The public provision of mobility services can reduce the car fleet by 80% and provide the best new vehicles for everyone to drive.

  2)The rapid development of precision fermentation (PF) to create food. PF can make the farming of animal fodder obsolete and enable us to return large swathes of land back to nature.

  3) The heating of our building using heat pump technology.

Future Posts

• Electric Vehicles for a City
• Electric Vehicles for Edinburgh
• Sources of Green House Gas
• Addressing Global Warming
  •  Electric Vehicles FAQs
  •  Electric Vehicles – Pros and Cons
  •  Livestock
  •  Lab-Grown Meat
  •  Feeding 9 billion people

Current

• Rapid technological innovation is changing the world as we know it. We will look at the technologies that can address climate change, ranging from new battery technology to micro flush toilets.

Future Posts

• Battery Technology
• Straight Flush – a micro flush toilet to save water