Minter Dialogue with Mary Hasavari Mary Hasavari is a filmmaker and screenwriter based in Oslo Norway. With her mixed Thai/Iranian heritage, Mary has a most unique story and viewpoint in her filmmaking, leveraging her third culture life to make engaging films. In this...
After a Year of the Pandemic – What’s Changed? A year ago today, England started moving into lockdown mode v1. On March 16 2020, Boris Johnson said, “Now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact and travel.” Ten days later we were in...
I don’t often write about politics, even less do I tend to express strong opinions about my political leanings. However, as a leader and brand marketer, it’s impossible for me to stand by with what is happening these days. The fact is that anyone who...
Has the “new normal” become a regular term in your lexicon? At the very least, I seem to keep hearing references to it, whatever normal may be. To wit, in his recent address to the Tory party convention, Boris Johnson emphatically said that we can’t...
“There is almost total partisanship, both on the right and the left…. neither side talks to the other, and the divide just seems to be getting worse.” Does this sentence resonate at all? It was written by my great-grandfather, Nathaniel Barksdale...
In an effort to divert our attention from panic and to focus it on the future, I wanted to put out a couple of polls about how this Covid-19 pandemic might change our lives. I wonder what (if any) long-term effects there will be? What impact will it have on us...