The COVID-19 pandemic has forced nation states to confront how we value health, wealth, and opportunity, apparently forcing governments to choose between the life of its citizens, and the life blood of the economy. Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England, argues this is a false dichotomy, and that we should be moving beyond a narrow and financially driven reaction, to COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced nation states to confront how we value health, wealth, and opportunity, apparently forcing governments to choose between the life of its citizens, and the life blood of the economy. Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England, argues this is a false dichotomy, and that we should be moving beyond a narrow and financially driven reaction, to COVID-19.

In 2008, the world experienced the near total implosion of the banking system.  According to 2020 BBC Reith lecturer, and former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, it was a deeper crisis in our values that underpinned that lurch towards the abyss.

In 2008, the world experienced the near total implosion of the banking system.  According to 2020 BBC Reith lecturer, and former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, it was a deeper crisis in our values that underpinned that lurch towards the abyss.

Mark Carney’s Reith lectures chart how we have come to esteem financial value over human value and how we have gone from market economies to market societies. He argues this has contributed to a trio of crises: of credit, Covid and climate.

Mark Carney’s Reith lectures chart how we have come to esteem financial value over human value and how we have gone from market economies to market societies. He argues this has contributed to a trio of crises: of credit, Covid and climate.

Has Covid 19 created a new world order? At the beginning of the pandemic China took a step back but is now on the front foot. America , meanwhile , is still deep in Covid hell. Can a vaccine and a new president restore America’s place in the world? CNN foreign affairs analyst Fareed Zakaria looks at the future balance of power.

Has Covid 19 created a new world order? At the beginning of the pandemic China took a step back but is now on the front foot. America , meanwhile , is still deep in Covid hell. Can a vaccine and a new president restore America’s place in the world? CNN foreign affairs analyst Fareed Zakaria looks at the future balance of power.

Political protest is a form of free speech and is seen as fundamental to democracy. In a time of COVID, however, large public gatherings are considered potentially hazardous. And governments have banned certain forms of protest.  Is the right to protest being undermined?

Political protest is a form of free speech and is seen as fundamental to democracy. In a time of COVID, however, large public gatherings are considered potentially hazardous. And governments have banned certain forms of protest.  Is the right to protest being undermined?