Yesterday I spent the morning with the RSC, helping the Company explore themes of power and leadership in Measure for Measure. I took The Great Brain with me, in a comedy Dr Poole BOGOF manoeuvre, who charmed them with showers of Shakespeare while I brought up the rear with Machiavelli et al. Read More
Have you ever really stopped to think whether you exist or not? Of course, we can’t prove reality, any more than we can prove the existence of God, so our lives are really just one big leap of faith. But I think this question is a great opportunity for a thought experiment. Read More