New writing

•Empathy and Climate Change: Proposals for a Revolution of Human Relationships: an essay on how to tackle the apathy around global warming. Download the essay here. Read a summary on George Marshall's Climate Denial Blog. Watch the six-minute YouTube video.

•Work and the Art of Living: my essay on how to decide what career path to follow and how to find work that is truly life enhancing. Be led by the example of Albert Schweitzer, Marie Curie and even Zorba The Greek. Free download here.

• You Are Therefore I Am: How Empathy Education Can Create Social Change. An Oxfam Research Report on how we can reinvent the way schools teach the art of empathy.

Upcoming courses and talks

• I am teaching courses at the extraordinary The School of Life on Work (starting September 7), Politics and Love.

• At the Latitude Festival in Southwold (July 16-19) I'll be leading a workshop on 'How to Be a Good Lover' in the Literary Arena, on behalf of The School of Life.

• I will be giving a talk on 'King Henry on the Real Tennis Court' as part of the Henry VIII Exhibition at the British Library, on August 4. I will be speaking alongside jousting expert Tobias Capwell.

• At this year's Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham (August 28-31), I will be giving a talk on 'Empathy and the Revolution of Human Relationships', and running a workshop with the popular philosopher Mark Vernon called 'Beyond the Cult of Self-Help'.