If as a thought experiment we accepted the generally proffered age of humanity as 200,000 and the average age of generational turnover over the centuries as working out around 20, then arithmetic suggests that we can work our way up either parental line through 10,000 grannies to get to The First Grannie. Imagine then a […]

Two weeks ago, this blog posed a question about what museums could be for, responding to a book review in The Financial Times that surveyed the landscape of museums across the world. It took as a given that whatever else will define the museum of the future, it will be a building occupying a space […]

Of all the reasons for locating the new Justice Quarter in Fleet Street, character comes out top. An ambitious construction scheme for the Fleet Street area seemed to have survived its second phase of consultation and, as the new year turned, was on course to deliver a significant new block of buildings on the south […]

Too much of the commentary on the purpose of museums is one-dimensional, prosaic, and entirely uninspired by what excites the human imagination. Controversy has been swirling recently over what we now think of as identity politics: how do we define ourselves in terms of what we think about other people, and how we act towards […]

Too much focus on the gizmos distracts from the simple truth that the market for Virtual Reality lies in the market, not in the technology Every time there’s a big new thing in the world of consumer technology, the initial breathlessness is invariably followed by a long sigh of disillusion before a more sensible middle […]