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Authority and answerability: no alibis left
16 Oct 2026
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Statecraft & Culture
What is The Good Society?
13 May 2026
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Where will the West turn for its survival?
23 Dec 2025
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Geopolitical Strategy
MAGA-ultras’ blue-collar economic nationalism might survive market turmoil, but will it arrest the ‘unscrupulous optimism’ of runaway meritocracies in Britain and Europe?
21 May 2025
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Geopolitical Strategy
Searching for virtues in the US administration’s New World Order
24 Mar 2025
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Geopolitical Strategy
TRUMP II’s existential politics: MAGAdom versus the university men and women’
24 Feb 2025
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Geopolitical Strategy
An ironic by-blow: the nation-state wriggles out of European modernity
9 Oct 2024
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Geopolitical Strategy
UK’s social contract up for renewal… but don’t let the utopians spoil it, as we have the solution already
30 May 2024
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Globalisation hits reverse – the end of The Modern Efficiency State (of mind)
31 Aug 2023
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Macroeconomic Inquiry
Harry and Meghan, shaping the British constitution
31 Dec 2022
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
UK recovery can draw from Germany’s structural reforms
31 Mar 2021
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Gen Z curing Baby Boomers’ addiction to ponderous rationality
10 Oct 2020
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Intersections of rhetoric shaping the civil landscape
5 Jul 2020
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Pathways to reform: Economic recovery will rest increasingly on new levels of mutuality and tolerance
23 Jun 2020
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
How to develop shrewd senior leaders who will address northern Britain’s productivity challenge (and Covid-19 recovery)
6 Apr 2020
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Macroeconomic Inquiry
From Churchill to Covid to the collective good: in a media-saturated now a voice from elsewhere
31 Mar 2020
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Strategic Critique
Avoiding organisational burnout whilst increasing your profits: through balancing leadership and management
5 Dec 2019
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Strategic Critique
Where will The North find its authority?: In the soft power (Nordpolitik) of British institutions
7 Aug 2019
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Regional economies leading the global post-Brexit charge: breaking free from the benevolent state through networked leadership
29 Jul 2019
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Re-telling the business model narrative to capture new value: the CEO as revisionist narrator
31 May 2019
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Strategic Critique
Lighter business models are innovative strategic leadership response to both the 4th Industrial Revolution and increasingly mobile consumer
17 May 2019
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Strategic Critique
Long-term value: Improving your board’s strategy processes in 2019
2 Jan 2019
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Executive Governance
The changing nature of organisational purpose under globalisation
21 Sep 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Executive Governance
A message to Chairpersons/CEOs from history: the UK’s new global role post-BREXIT
14 Sep 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Executive Governance
The CEO and their language as leaders: developing new ways of speaking realistically into a changing world
21 Aug 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Executive Governance
Authenticity and change in the coming commercial flux (Podcast)
25 Jul 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Institutional Velocity
Naked Education: Odd and ordinary learning
12 Jun 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
The Mad Shareholder: Struggle of speaking into contemporary society
7 Jun 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Grenfell and the banality of modern power: And how very ordinary people diligently partake in evil
4 Jun 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
When the two great anti-philosophers of modernity, Karl Marx and Jesus Christ, see eye-to-eye (Podcast)
23 May 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Shocking Britain: UK’s EU exit offers insights into power and change (Podcast)
25 Apr 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Institutional Velocity
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Statecraft & Culture
Podcast: Thinking about ‘third dimensions’: Big data and the empathy puzzle
4 Apr 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Decay, decrepitude, dereliction: and their benefits post-Brexit
14 Mar 2018
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Speaking into power in the Age of Kittens
22 Nov 2017
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
What I have Learnt So Far…
9 Jan 2017
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Uncategorized
Is it really so bad to have a business mogul as president?
11 Nov 2016
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Geopolitical Strategy
Christianity as modernity
24 Mar 2016
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
But I digress: Change management lessons from Tristram Shandy
30 May 2015
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Playfulness in language, its leaderful and commercial potential
16 Aug 2014
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Norman Nicholson: A Conscious Modernism
1 Jul 2014
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
When Did Modernity Start?
3 Sep 2013
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
‘Great Tidal Waves of Energy’: Music’s Revolutionary Zeal
22 Apr 2013
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Qualitative Easing: Pumping New Meaning into ‘The Life Cycle’
26 Feb 2013
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Death of The Question: Are We Becoming More Socially and Intellectually Conservative in Britain?
11 Sep 2012
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Sacred and Sinister: Where to Fit in Between American vs European Life Worldviews?
22 Jul 2012
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Research Under Capitalism Can’t Be Truthful
19 May 2012
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Institutional Velocity
Winter kept us warm, covering…
31 Mar 2012
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Of all the spaces in all the world
29 Feb 2012
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Strategic leadership and aesthetics
31 Jan 2012
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Executive Governance
Mediocrity at its best: Joan Sutherland, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Alan Keith
21 Dec 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Note-taking: Conceit and the umbilical cord of first mood
21 Nov 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
The rise and rise of Social Media: Business and management study – an invitation to ‘give thought’ at this stage
21 Oct 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
A Criterion of Beauty! Whatever Next?
9 Sep 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Delinquency in delicatessen-land: Urban sickness
10 Aug 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Comfortable niches and ‘toothless poodles’
29 Jul 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Institutional Velocity
Housing: – A Quiet Social Catastrophe
25 Jun 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Time skating on ice
18 Jun 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Virtual and real
4 Jun 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Ego, anger and their leadership
20 May 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Executive Governance
Waterstones put in the grip of the small
20 May 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Institutional Velocity
Reflections on the nature of slow inexorable change
18 May 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
From ‘special friend’ to poor friend
6 May 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Geopolitical Strategy
Theory on stage
4 May 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Epochal Shifts
Fast flowing
14 Apr 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Debate? Where is it now?
14 Mar 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Uncategorized
Paris or London: Which is more beautiful?
26 Feb 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Uncategorized
Technology as ornamentation
17 Feb 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Uncategorized
Discretion is now the better part of Valerie
17 Feb 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Uncategorized
Debt due to a vision of ourselves: A unique kind of British Angst
16 Feb 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Uncategorized
Proper Ganda
30 Jan 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Uncategorized
In praise of the irrational and the ‘still small voice’
30 Jan 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Uncategorized
Dickensian Britain returns
30 Jan 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
Is it time for Harold Wilson to be re-incarnated?
30 Jan 2011
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Dr Stephen Gibbs
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Statecraft & Culture
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