The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.