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I have long derided the approach to government that seems to override the obvious in favour of kicking the can down the road. However, the lack of intelligent and inspirational thought hit a new low this week. Phillip Hammond, arguably the second most important person in British Government, proposed a Law Commission review to consider...

Only a few days ago I heard that the British Government was planning on banning plastic straws and cotton buds. While this may sound a positive step towards helping to save the planet, I am not sure that it will make an enormous dent in the plastic mountain that the world has created. Even worse,...

As the world moves faster and faster, the comment that one cannot join the dots going forward becomes more and more true. So often we can look back and see how we got to a certain place, but at the time the points along the route did not appear to be anything other than rest...

Those that follow me regularly will know that I am not a fan of the ‘selfie’. I find it frankly frightening that millenials are likely to take 25,000 selfies in the course of their lifetime! Assuming that it takes them only two minutes of their lives getting their phone out, turning the camera on, getting...

I have often commented that government has a lot to learn from entrepreneurs, and that a more entrepreneurial approach to government is essential in today’s world. But the behaviour of politicians of all sides in the Brexit negotiations, or lack of them, has provided a number of lessons for entrepreneurs. Unfortunately these lessons are very...

As September comes around, holidays become a distant memory as children return to school or commence school for the first time. Clearly starting school is important for any child, and also important for every parent that wants the best for their child. But what is really best for their child? One of the obvious tests...

This week I thought I would discuss two entrepreneurial ideas that caught my eye. They were not in any way linked, except that they were both entrepreneurial. The first of these was a communication device produced for the British air force that operated on the principle of bone conduction. There have been bone conduction hearing...

I suppose I should have remembered that the best place to hide something is in plain sight after my wife managed to get her new coat into the home without me noticing it by wearing it! I have just come back from a holiday in Malaysia and, as is my wont, I was looking around...

For the next few weeks I will be on holiday, although I will be looking for new ideas for blogs in the places I visit. In the meantime, here are all my my current books that are all available on www.bookboon.com I hope you enjoy them and look forward to being back blogging in August.

If I was to suggest to people that they feed their children brain-altering drugs that, when abused, have the same effect as cocaine, people would be astonished and regard me as some form of monster. And yet, this is exactly what is happening to an increasing numbers of children. In the last ten years, in...