John Harris is a Guardian columnist, who writes on subjects including politics, popular culture and music
If democracy looks doomed, Extinction Rebellion may have an answer
At the heart of a new climate emergency bill lies a simple idea to cut through Westminster groupthink: a citizens’ assembly.
September 2, 2020
Why You Don’t Hear Trump or Farage Talking About the Tech Revolution
This is the basic argument of a book I have been lost in for the last 10 days: The Technology Trap, by the Swedish-German economist and historian Carl Benedikt Frey. His basic thesis is that this phase of the 21st century is turning out to be very like the early 19th, in the sense that technology is causing a great crisis of status, security and trust in institutions.
July 24, 2019