(2021) Society and Thatcher’s Curse
What it means to be human is being reinvented. There is something new today about relationships, within families, with friends, in workplaces, in communities, within society.
(2021) Obituary to John Caldon (1947-2021): The Yorkshireman Who Called Australia Home
John Richard Caldon, investment banker and entrepreneur, who died of complications of lung cancer on Tuesday 16 February, arguably had the greatest impact on Australia of any Yorkshireman since Captain Cook.
(2021) Loneliness and Mental Illness — What We Can Do
Mental illness, depression, loneliness is with us. Mostly buried away in silence.
(2021) Human Rights, Self-Interest, and Foreign Policy
This paper helped refine my thinking on aspects of the old self-interest versus morality “debate”. Hopefully, when I get around to writing something interesting about Owen Harries, the preparation and discussion helps.
(2021) Understand Asia, Understand China: An Interview with William (Bill) Overholt
Slightly edited (for coherence) transcript of a Frank Talk discussion with Bill Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Michael Easson for the International Institute for Strategic Leadership Dialogue, on Saturday 27 March 2021 in Sydney and Friday 26 March 2021 in Boston.