The future will be weirder than we think Developments in the next few decades could change humanity for the next few millennia. So says this recent opinion piece published by Bloomberg citing genetic and neural engineering, increased longevity for the wealthy, first contact with extraterrestrials, self-replicating space probes and designer…

and how humans lost. None of this is real. It’s 21st century disinformation warfare fought on the battlefield of your timeline. Over past months I’ve studied how weaponised AI bots on social media destroy truth, create chaos and sow division within our society. This anticipatory research has informed some startling…

Neurodivergent black children and children from disadvantaged homes are disproportionately excluded from schools, as a strategy. I get a variety of reactions when I tell people that I was a school refuser who was excluded at age 15. One that I hear a lot is, “but you’re not typical.” I…

The left vs right political paradigm is broken, an illusion of democracy, where whoever you vote for the system always wins — Gen Z Rising The Labour Party as a party of change is finished and the Conservative Party is pathologically corrupt. Welcome to the world of British politics. This…

If you designed a classroom, would it be a room? Why don’t you design a school? I’m often asked. This has less to do with my skills as a designer and more to do with my talks calling for a re-imagining of schools purpose, of what we learn and how…

Every so often the statue of Winston Churchill in London’s Parliament Square gets defaced as part of a protest. This past weekend it was defaced during protests supporting the global Black Lives Matter movement. Under the engraved CHURCHILL someone had painted “Was a Racist”. It’s powerful because it’s factually correct. …

It’s not a coincidence that the global Black Lives Matter protests have reached their loudest during a pandemic. It’s not a coincidence that the environmental, feminist and LGBTQ+ rights movements have reached a zenith. It’s not a coincidence either, the rise in far-right populism, terrorism and white supremacy movements. It’s…

Are you following the ISIS Flag Hack? (Please note: there are updates below — last update posted 17th August 2020) Everyday more Facebook & Instagram users are finding themselves locked out of their accounts by a security breach that takes just 15 minutes to perform — here’s how: On May…

The future of higher education and the great unbundling After a gap year teaching, my daughter was expecting to join other freshers when she commenced university later this year. COVID-19 has disrupted this for her as well as the life of millions of students globally. Like schools, universities have quickly…