I loved The Police so when Sting released his first solo album The Dream of the Blue Turtles in 1985, an obligatory trip to the record shop followed soon after. The song that defined the album is, 37 years later, now sadly more relevant even than it was then. There is almost nothing anyone can say about Putin’s psychopathic attack on U...

I’ve been thinking a lot about place attachment recently. Place attachment is the emotional bond between person and place, and is a key concept in the field of environmental psychology. But it also comes up time and again in architecture, urban design and geography. It’s closely aligned with what the Romans called ‘genius loci’ or the ...

A friend and I were talking about great coaches a couple of days ago. He was making a strong case for Jose Mourinho. There’s a great series about coaching on Netflix from 2020 called The Playbook. Mourinho features in one episode and the whole series is well worth a watch. Anyway we were talking about character and reputation and I rem...