Fairground carousel, Barcelona
This Spanish infant looks serious - it's almost as if some state bureaucrat has already told him that there's no such thing as a free lunch, he has to face a demographic timebomb, etc.
Picture: James Woudhuysen

Public sector

16 September 2009 | Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council

Challenge of the crisis

In terms of the workforce skills it develops, how should a region of South Africa like the Eastern Cape respond to the credit crunch? 6MB

15 June 2009 | spiked

Risk-taking, R&D and the recession

The woeful level of Western investment in R&D reveals much about the capitalists’ state of mind

15 July 2008 | Forecasts proved right

Freddie Mac – when are you coming back?

What my book Why is construction so backward?, written with Ian Abley, said four years ago about today's financial crisis in the US

31 March 2008 | Battle of Ideas

The ‘Regeneration Games’, London, 2012

Don’t let the 2012 Olympics become another Dome or T5!

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

August 2007 | Blueprint

Shuffling towards Bethlehem

So what rough beast, its hour come round at last, emerges for the worlds of architecture and design, from Gordon Brown’s summer rejig of ministerial posts?

12 March 2007 | Editorial Intelligence

Where is Britain’s innovative edge?

Debate at NESTA with Reuters, Friends Provident and Martin Vander Weyer, business editor of The Spectator

| Editorial Intelligence

Where is Britain’s innovative edge? – the Podcast

20 October 2006 | FM World

Government IT disasters: fear is the key

Gordon Brown has proposed to outsourcing policy on the NHS to an 'independent' board. That's bad for democracy, and bad for management, too

9 October 2006 | IT Week

NHS puts IT in the casualty ward

The broad goals of the NHS Connecting for Health programme are laudable, so what is going wrong?

7 August 2006 | spiked

Beware the New Parochialism

The summer 2006 Los Angeles love-ins on climate change – Blair and Schwarzenegger, Livingstone and Clinton – might look like a triumph for ecologically-minded internationalism. In fact, they celebrated the small, the local and the decentralised

20 February 2006 | IT Week

ID cards yes, mobile government no

The government's enthusiasm for ID cards is in stark contrast to its lukewarm attitude to mobile IT.

December 2005 | Rising East

From urban regeneration to social engineering

The world’s cities are engaged in renewed competitive struggles with each other. But the strategies surrounding urban regeneration face a crisis of creativity

16 September 2005 | IT Week

IT must address grey matters

Technology must be harnessed to ensure businesses get the best out of the UK's ageing workforce.

27 May 2005 | IT Week

The government IT club wants you

Government IT may be changing but it still encroaches where it is not needed.

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