The People We Know

How do you cope with the realisation that you never really knew the person you loved the most?  This is the question driving a story set in India and Britain about a woman who struggles to keep secret a shocking discovery about the husband she had adored.Set in...

Exploring the Green Economy

The threat of irreversible climate change continues to loom large over every nation and government. Yet is it at all clear what must be done? Are adjustments to diet and spending habits enough, or do we need key infrastructural changes to salvage the situation?...

The BBC at 100: Will it Survive?

Author:  John Mair The troubled atmosphere surrounding the nation’s Broadcasting House grows thicker by the day. The attacks on the Corporation continue to stack up from all sides. One of our great British cultural inventions may be in existential danger. The question...

WHAT’S THE POINT OF OFCOM

John Mair Ofcom is one of the Britain’s key regulators. But will the new chair to be announced in Spring 2021 be up to handling the 21st century challenges of technology, culture and...