The Journey Back to Earth

There’s an old Siberian story called The Moon Palace. When a girl’s unusual boyfriend is attacked by her father, and told that their love cannot be, she rockets free of her body and takes up residence on the moon. There it is safe to watch life on Earth without feeling its pain. Or the intensity of its…

Beowulf and the Banker

Podcast version of the below text (8 minutes). The Old English poem Beowulf, perhaps more than any other story, might be the antidote to the poison of business-as-usual as lockdown eases and world events scream for change. It is a story for everyone – shareholder, chief executive and lobbyist included. Whether we realise it or not, humans…