One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

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.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.