Where is the environmental movement's Bob Geldof or its Bono? Can you think of one celebrity who is very publicly associated with campaigning on climate change as ferociously as Bob has done on development? It's not easy. What comes to mind is the derision poured on Sting's head over his passion for an exotic combination of the rainforest and tantric sex.

Rightly or wrongly, the Geldof/Bono alliance has been crucial [...]

By the time I'd finished this book, it was peppered with Post-it notes and scored with underlining for re-reading. This is not a work you can take in at one sitting: partly because it is so packed with thought, partly because it is so profound and challenging. I ended up full of admiration for the subtlety and originality of Richard Sennett's work, while feeling frustrated that his critique of the [...]

The ambition of the title intrigued me. I was right behind Julia Neuberger, willing her on. We need a debate about morality, and here is someone steeped in both a moral tradition (thanks to her experiences as a rabbi) and the institutional practice of morality (thanks to her time as chief executive of health think-tank the King's Fund). Who better to promote this debate and to ensure that profoundly moral [...]