Simon Kaplan, on John Banville I've been reading a lot of the Irish novelist John Banville this year. Although the construction of his books is nothing remarkable and his outlook on humanity
Pen Stuart writes: “‘Are Chinese people creative?’ – it depends if you mean in the Western Christian sense of creating something from nothing”. This was the best line in a fascinating
Vera Kiss writes: The Futures Company’s recently published Future Perspective “The Coming Decade for Latin America” highlights that companies can effectively build opportunities in
Pen Stuart writes: A recent study in the long tradition of talking about American moral decline has created a lot of buzz. It trawled through the 5.2 million strong Google Books archive to find
Andrew Curry and Victoria Ward write: Last week Francine Houben of Mecanoo Architecten talked about their design of Birmingham's future library as a "living room for the city". More than just
Liz Walkling: Graffiti Classics: I can't remember an evening where I came away with my face aching from laughing and my hands sore from clapping so much. Our local Arts Centre hosted an evening
Anand Rao writes: There is no escaping it. Religion has always been the zeitgeist in India and despite the strife it causes, it is beloved to the Indian psyche. India’s unique proposition is as
Emily Pitts writes: King’s Place in London held an elegant discussion last week on the art of rhetoric, led by Tony Benn, Simon Schama, Polly Toynbee, Geoffrey Robertson and curated by English PEN.
Sarah King writes: At The Futures Company we do a lot of segmentation work, for organisations trying to get really new insight into their audiences - who they are, how they behave, their attitudes
