The Geist of a period changes.  It forms the backcloth to political decisions and verdicts on them. The poet Shelley said that ‘Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the future.’

There is a growing community whose ideas are changing the perspective on how things are done on a political level. Reflection on underlying trends, sharing ideas, is the midwife to a climate of opinion in which desirable change is more likely to come about.

Studies galore explain governance systems of the world but how many people reflect carefully about alternatives to their societies and try and think how to change things in a fundamental way as opposed to tinkering at the edges.  What is ‘the way forward’?  In detail or in large perspective, reflection helps bring progress.