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In a digital age, can mainstream media match Silicon Valley's lure?
  • calender icon May 7, 2018

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

Ahead of The National's Future Forum tomorrow, Tom Fletcher asks how media outlets will stay ahead of the curve, retraining for the roles that ...

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Rest in tweet: the digital epitaphs that will live on after we're gone
  • calender icon April 22, 2018

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

We cannot imagine our lives without social media but will it start to become part of our deaths too?   I was recently enjoying a truly ...

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There are fewer wars when you take power away from men in big castles
  • calender icon April 9, 2018

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

The best ideas now spread sideways. We need to build solutions together – it turns out our survival depends on it.   Those who h ...

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Behind Diplomatic Lines: Relations with Ministers by Patrick Wright
  • calender icon February 13, 2018

  • user icon Tom Fletcher for Chatham House

The room occupied by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office permanent under-secretary is an intimidating place. Surveying the same St James Park lamps ...

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The pursuit of happiness is backed by science – happy people are more productive
  • calender icon February 11, 2018

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

Writing to a friend in April 1776, the future US president John Adams suggested that the best form of government was one "which communicates e ...

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