Christopher Hitchens, one decade on
- Added On: December 15th, 2021
- By: Tam McDonald
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Some lives reflect the mission of The Long Now Foundation, a creative thinking foundry that encourages imagination at the timescale of civilisation of the next and last 10,000 years. Individuals so rooted can make a huge impression in the here and now, but reflection enables a longer view of what shaped their past, animates their … Read More
Squaring up to Climate Change
- Added On: November 25th, 2021
- By: Tam McDonald
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Glasgow’s Climate Change event – the 26th “Conference of the Parties” that convened earlier this month to advance humanity’s response to the crisis facing our environment – has come and gone. Arising from the occasion, before and after, the consensus reaction boiled down to two key convictions: before, that it would fall significantly short of … Read More
Thoughts for COP26 from Wordsworth, Simon & Garfunkel
- Added On: November 1st, 2021
- By: Tam McDonald
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It’s not often that one of our tweets is a celebration of the contemplative life. Such was the thrust – or let’s say the drift – of a Guardian editorial commenting on an English Heritage promotion of the virtues of silence. “There’s a lot to be said,” it said, “for . . . a peaceful … Read More
Let’s give short shrift to “Both Sides”
- Added On: October 28th, 2021
- By: Tam McDonald
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Occasionally two articles come along in the same week, ostensibly about different topics, but each prompting a similar reaction. It happened this past week with the publication a few days ago in The Guardian’s “Long Read” series of an article entitled “Built on the bodies of slaves: how Africa was erased from the history of … Read More
What would a restoration business school be like?
- Added On: September 28th, 2021
- By: Tam McDonald
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In the weeks since Cradle of English completed its first “immerzeo” – an Augmented Reality tour of a historic setting in Fleet Street – the reactions that have been the most rewarding have been those responding to the differences between modern life and what transpired “back in the day”. Not just back in the day … Read More