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On the new Advanced Research and Invention Agency

[Also posted to LinkedIn]

Sep 5, 2022

On the new Advanced Research and Invention Agency

Sep 5, 2022

Lovely writing and imagery, Sally.

May 14, 2022

May 14, 2022

Proposal for a #Rethink on how we debate ideas

I drafted this piece in June 2020 for the Rethink series of ‘post-Covid’ opinion pieces which was initially broadcast in the first half of…

Mar 14, 2022

Proposal for a #Rethink on how we debate ideas

Mar 14, 2022

On the denouement of Covid politics

I wrote first drafted this four weeks ago, before Christmas, and think I identified the inflection point in Covid politics. For some…

Jan 18, 2022

On the denouement of Covid politics

Jan 18, 2022

Letter to my MP on Plan B vote in Parliament on 14 December 2021

Yesterday the House of Commons voted for a number of statutory instruments (ie: regulations) for England, including Covid passes…

Dec 15, 2021

BBC News story: MPs back Covid passes in England despite huge Tory rebellion

Dec 15, 2021

On working for free

We seem to live in a culture in which many organisations (and some people) think others should do work for them for nothing, on the basis…

May 6, 2021

May 6, 2021

Press freedom starts at home

Today is World Press Freedom Day (#WorldPressFreedomDay), which media organisations are rightly highlighting and celebrating. Via the BBC…

May 3, 2021

Press freedom starts at home

May 3, 2021

Where are the digital plumbers?

Why aren’t more people being trained as ICT appliance installers and engineers for the home?

Apr 19, 2021

Where are the digital plumbers?

Apr 19, 2021

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The Political Macroscope

On the moralising of politics

One of the most egregious characteristics of debate in [[Modern British politics]], is treating people whose views are opposed to yours as…

Oct 29, 2020

Oct 29, 2020

Published in
The Political Macroscope

On freedom of speech and the culture of offence

On Friday in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the Île-de-France region in north-central France, a teacher was brutally executed by an…

Oct 20, 2020

On freedom of speech and the culture of offence

Oct 20, 2020

Nico Macdonald

Nico Macdonald

Educator, facilitator and consultant on innovation and creativity. Tutor @CIEELondon @LSBU_ACI / External Examiner @CSM_news. BIG POTATOES manifesto co-author

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