Shape of Now: Meta Hub is used for idea development, creative collaboration, and future‑focused planning. It helps individuals and teams turn abstract concepts into clear insights, frameworks, and projects. Its purpose is to make innovation easier to start, easier to share, and easier to build on.
Shape of Now: Meta Hub is the central index for curated essays, reflections, and long‑form commentary on culture, politics, identity, and the lived present. It gathers writing that examines how people make sense of the world, how stories shape nations, and how private experiences echo through public life. The Meta Hub exists to organise these pieces, connect their themes, and offer readers a coherent way to explore the ideas that run through your work.
Its purpose is simple: to provide a structured home for the writing that tries to understand the present moment with context, memory, and a steady eye on how we got here.
This is the ground on which The Shape of Now stands, a place to read the present with a longer memory and a steadier gaze.
- Brexit and Gibraltar: A Case Study in Self‑Inflicted Damage
- Cadaver Tombs in England: Mediaeval Mortality in Stone
- The Book of Jasher
- Never Going to visit Florida
- A British Observer Tries to Make Sense of America’s Great Unravelling
- Walsingham: The Holy Land of Parking Confusion
- What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?
- Where My Writing Likes to Wander
- Once I had a name, a job, a sense of who I was
- A Tent, A Cough, and Questionable Life Choices
- Holidays and Why I love going home
- The Universe Isn’t Sending Me Signs – It’s Just Raining
- Moving Forward, Mostly by Accident
- What We Thought We Knew About the late Shahanshah of Iran
- The Young Shah: The American Life of a Prince Who Lost a Kingdom
- Raised in a Strike, Stuck With a Ballot
- When “Working Together” Has a Target
- Mystery? What Mystery?
- The Superpower of Simply Getting On With It
- A Nation That Runs on The Stories We Tell to Tourists
- A Small British Quarrel With a Very Big Book
- The Accidental Road Tripper: A British Guide to Gettin’ It Wrong
- The admiration of Characters Who Can’t Disappoint
- The Art of Almost Crying: Giuffre Family Appearances
- The Search for the Meaning of life in a Changing Universe
- Dinner with Diogenes of Sinope
- Another Refusal on Prostate Screening
- The Universe Isn’t Sending Me Signs – It’s Just Raining
- Notes from a British Gentleman
- Advice and The Want of a Guide
- The Province of Perpetual Discernment
- Review: Ibis Budget Carcassonne, Rue Général Leclerc
- McBurnie of Kirkmahoe
- The Olive Oil Jar in the Cupboard
- The murder of Henry Nowak
- The Sardine Diet and Older Men
- Bournemouth Airport Review: What Travellers Can Really Expect
- A British Guide to Boundaries for the Terminally Polite
- Why Britain Needs a Defence Bond
- All the King’s Men (1946)-Robert Penn Warren
- Flower of Scotland and Scottish Identity
- The return of old fears in new clothing
- Review: Ibis Budget Carcassonne, Rue Général Leclerc
Bodies for Sale: The Modern Male
- How the American Male Became a Commodity
- The Curated American Male Body on the slab and the insatiable beast
- Narrative Themes in American Gay Adult Media