1 January 2008 | Design Council

Mission creep; the limits of design

Transcript of speech at the Intersections conference on design, Newcastle, 25 October 2007

18 December 2007 | IT Week

In praise of Do It Yourself

Bringing in outsiders to help big firms innovate doesn’t guarantee success

12 December 2007 | spiked

Knocking the wind out of the energy debate

The UK government department in charge of energy is strangling urgently needed generation schemes in red tape, precaution and ceaseless consultation

20 November 2007 | IT Week

Lara Croft gets down to business

Is IBM right to believe that computer games can aid corporate education and inspire innovation?

| The Register

What's Auntie for, exactly?

Instead of a dispassionate approach, the BBC gives us dumbed-down moral absolutes, far-out footage, and a sprinkling of "balance"

5 November 2007 | spiked

Brown's 'get fit' towns: Kim Jong-il would be proud

With its new towns that will force people to keep fit, New Labour is pushing an authoritarian health agenda that will be the envy of tinpot dictators

26 October 2007 | spiked

Clausewitz after 9/11

The Prussian master's brilliant analytical method in On War provides richer insights into the contemporary wars against terrorism than anything his glib critics have come up with

16 October 2007 | IT Week

Compulsive computer use

Can’t kick the IT habit? It’s time to stop worrying and state the case for free will

10 October 2007 | spiked

Why greens don’t want to ‘solve’ climate change

Environmentalists are cagey about techno-fixes to climate change because berating mankind for its impact on nature is their raison d'être

4 October 2007 | spiked

Sputnik: when American fears went into orbit

When the Soviets put the first man-made satellite into space, 50 years ago today, the event launched an era of US self-doubt that continues to this day

28 September 2007 | The Listener, 15 October 1987

Toward the global concept

Twenty years ago, design was just beginning today's upswing – but the US had clearly begun to regain its worldwide prominence in the field

12 September 2007 | spiked

Like it or not, coal is vital to Asia’s growth

Those calling on China and India to ‘kick the coal habit’, and opt for less sooty forms of energy, overlook the vast benefits of coal use for those nations.

7 September 2007 | IT Week

Innovation is more than combination

New technological breakthroughs are often a clever mix of old ones. But they also mark a leap named Progress

4 September 2007 | spiked

Towards a bigger innovation footprint

Corporate Social Responsibility in the mobile IT sector is a smokescreen that hides a lamentable record on innovation

30 August 2007 | spiked

Let’s research our own R&D record

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development may be right that the Chinese are sluggish on research and development. But the same is true of America and Europe