The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.