Tomorrow can seem a scary place. Our original research and our vital initiatives aim to give you a look inside it or help to create it — thinking and acting

The Aurelius Initiative is a novel approach to changing the policy debate, in order to address polycrisis and the impact of changing technologies on our economies, our societies and the people in them, our politics, our institutions and our environments.

Renewing political economy to restore its policy relevance and its impact.

Futuresphere | A think and act tank

Acting to change the rules of public policy and political economy

The Aurelius initiative

Futuresphere itself is key part of the Aurelius Initiative. To confront the challenges of polycrisis and of the impacts of profound technological change we need to think differently and to debate issues differently in the public sphere. We need to change our politics, our economics, public opinions and public policies in a wide range of areas.

Bringing a fresh perspective to some fundamental issues

Enhancing the performance of UK corporate governance

The big question:
Anthropogenic climate change?

How was it ever allowed to get this bad?
UK tax policy is a national embarrassment

Just the TAX, ma’am
Reforming the UK tax drag-net

UK tax reform is long overdue. What would a sound, sane tax system fit for the 21st century look like? Who would win and who would lose?

What place human capital theory? Revisiting funding tertiary education