Is the word ‘populist’ an insult?

  The word ‘populism’ seems to appear practically every day in the media. Indeed, the media appears to spend an inordinate amount of time on what they consider is the ‘populist’ rhetoric of Donald Trump. At times they do speak of other populist personalities, especially those in countries like Poland and Hungary, but mainly it’s…

Web Summit is turning green

Last week IESE had a presence at Web Summit in Lisbon and I came away much more optimistic about the world's future as perhaps we will be able to reign in some of the more dangerous aspects of the web and also find ways to adress environmental problems.

The Olly Robbins’ Show

When the British civil servant Olly Robbins was first compared with Grigori Rasputin, the Russian cult-figure and self-proclaimed prophet, by some Brexiteer Conservative MPs, most of us were surprised. Then when the former head of Ml6, the British Secret Service, Richard Dearlove, said that Robbins “had serious questions of improper conduct to answer over the…
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