Thought For The Day And The Case For Taking Time To Reflect
At 7:47 on a weekday morning, the most combative programme in British broadcasting shifts pace. The interruptions stop, and the follow-up questions cease. For two minutes and forty-five seconds, a single voice, reflects on the news of the day. Thought for the Day has been doing this since 1970. Most listeners have a view on it. Few are indifferent.
What Happens When Society Can No Longer Replace Itself?
Population collapse is a far greater risk to civilisation than climate change, according to Elon Musk. Buried in the hyperbole is a question that some of the world's most rigorous demographic researchers have been asking for decades, and one that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. What happens when a society can no longer replace itself?
Which Countries Lead the World in Academic Research? The Data Has a Few Surprises
Dreaming spires and ivy-clad walls say little about the quality of academic research being produced across an entire national system The measuresHE Country 100 ranking 2026 measure which countries have built the deepest, most rigorous, most open and most consistently excellent research ecosystems, from top to bottom. The results may surprise you.
Is the Market’s Euphoria Justified or Just Exuberant?
"How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values,” asked the then Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan in 1996. Will the current bull market end in tears?
Can Wireless Recover From The Kanye Scandal?
Wednesday afternoon it was announced that the UK’s Wireless music festival had been cancelled, less than 24 hours before tickets were due to go on sale, due to backlash against Kanye West. Can Wireless ever recover from this scandal?
What a Desert in Full Bloom Can Teach Us About Our Potential
Death Valley is carpeted in wildflowers. Seeds that had been lying dormant in the soil, some of them perhaps waiting years for exactly this moment, woke up. Given the right conditions, they simply did what they were always capable of doing. They bloomed.
Talent 100 Ranking 2026 of Business & Economics
The Talent 100 Business & Economics 2026 ranking measures academics not by fame, institutional halo or lifetime achievement, but by recent, demonstrable research performance - publication volume, quality, citation impact and what measuresHE calls “research gravitas.”
Moneyball for Business Schools – What the Talent 100 Reveals About Where Research Impact Really Lives
In the 2011 film Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who stops trusting inherited wisdom about what a “great player” looks like and start trusting the data. The newly released Talent 100 Ranking for Business & Economics does the same.