For the last few years I have made it a tradition to post up a series of video lectures to provoke thought and reflection over the Christmas period.

The lectures are divided into three, and shamelessly borrow from the wonderful Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, which have been run since 1825, with Michael Faraday kicking things off.

It seems that we’re living through a period of incredible change at the moment, whether political or technological, so the lectures this year will focus primarily on what some of those changes are, and how we might adapt to them.

The first, from the Brooking Institute, examines the nature of economic, political, and social megachanges, including a close look at how domestic and global institutions must adapt to tidal waves of change.