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Part consultancy, part thinktank. part social enterprise, Halcyon helps you monitor, interpret and respond to key issues, values and ideas at the personal, organisational and societal levels.

HALCYON HEADLINES

In Figures - Global Jobs

The world needs to create 600m new jobs over the next decade to sustain economic growth and maintain social stability, according to the United Nations International Labour Organisation.

In Figures - Global Population

With global population now exceeding 7 billion, National Geographic examined provided a broad overview of demographic trends that got us to today and will impact us tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the global population is still growing by an estimated 79 million per year.

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Identifying rise of TDR TB

News broke in India of patients infected with tuberculosis (TB) that has become resistant to all the drugs used against the disease.  Physicians called the strain TDR, for Totally Drug-Resistant TB.  This followed earlier moves by health ministers from countries with the highest rates of extreme drug-resistant (XDR) TB committed to an action plan to stop and reverse the global epidemic of the disease.

HALCYON FEATURES

Imagining anyone being able to travel virtually anywhere...

...such as along the Trans Siberian Railway.  No substitute for the original, certainly, but perhaps a relatively green way nonetheless of democratising curiosity. ...read more

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HALCYON QUOTES

The mistake the contemporary secularist makes is to think these humane, tolerant and liberal insights can easily be separated from their religious foundations. The folly of this idea can be seen both in the catastrophe of communism and in the progressive fantasies of secular liberalism. The point is that it is religion - if only in the very broad sense of an awareness of one's closeness to the unknown and the unknowable - that keeps one humble, modest and innoculated against utopian excesses - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times, 25/03/06

HALCYON LISTENS

On Humanity

The RSA recently gathered a high-profile panel of speakers to explore the hidden agendas behind our values and attitudes toward the place of ‘the human’ in today’s societies, and debate what must now be a key issue for the 21st century.

On The Waste Land

The Wasteland and Modernity tried to figure out whether someone who captured modern life so well could really dislike it so much. When he stared out at a world of radio and cinema, of radical art and universal suffrage, did T.S. Eliot really see only a barren, featureless plain?

On The Divine Comedy

Is it possible to appreciate fully Dante’s work without understanding the man himself and the society in which he lived?  A recent book attempted to shed new light on what some have called "the greatest of all European poems".