Our new institute for global security is a model for avoiding dystopia. International collaboration on tackling global problems has never been more important, say Chris Husbands and John Dewar The threats are huge, and they are growing. The technological revolution, which brought such huge advances in connectivity and communication, now feels intimidating. Our computers fill…

Philip Larkin’s poem The Trees  begins with one of his most famous lines ‘The trees are coming into leaf/Like something almost being said’.  It goes on to mark, with characteristically Larkin-esque uncertainty, the endless cycle of the seasons: ‘Is it that they are born again/And we grow old? No, they die too,/Their yearly trick of…