How can we plan for the rest of this pandemic, when we don’t know how long it will last? Perhaps if we learn the approximate stages any crisis goes through, we may gain some idea.   Steve Latham   Recently, a consultant, Simon Barrington, led a webinar on the lifecycle […]

When we watch disaster movies, the hero (and it is usually a male) does daring deeds, playing a leading role in overcoming the threat.    Steve Latham   Even if he begins the film as a relative nobody, he somehow ends up in the centre of the action. In real […]

I write about ‘my depression’. But why so possessive? Because, every person’s depression is unique to them.   Steve Latham   To appropriate Tolstoy’s observation about families (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’), we are happy in the same way; we are […]

“Tiredness kills” is a motorway sign warning drivers to take regular breaks in order to avoid accidents.   Steve Latham   It also describes our cultural moment, as Covid-19 continues to sap our energy, and we approach a state of societal enervation. For example, I noticed, among my colleagues, as […]

Last year I wrote a column here about China; or rather, using China as a case study to examine how we can, or can’t, foresee the future.   Steve Latham   I don’t claim any particular expertise about Chinese politics. All the issues raised were in the public domain, in […]