2 April 2012 | Blueprint, November 1984

David King: graphic designer, ranged left

When once he art edited the Sunday Times colour supp, David King brought picture after picture of Leon Trotsky to the breakfast-tables of Britain. Nearly 30 years ago, this is his first ever major interview

| Blueprint, late 1986

FHK Henrion: graphics as propaganda in World War II

In the 1940s FHK Henrion did some of the world's most passionate posters; in the 1960s, he helped create the face of post-war Britain. Just four years before his death, I talked to him at his house in Hampstead

28 March 2012 | Smart Monkey TV

Open innovation, the linear model of innovation, and risk avoidance

Kitchen interview on how companies abdicate responsibility for innovation

27 March 2012 | Smart Monkey TV

Innovation: what is it and who spends money on it?

Kitchen interview on the basics of new products and services, R&D, state intervention and the role of basic scientific research

26 March 2012 | Smart Monkey TV

Innovation: the picture in energy and in pharmaceuticals

Kitchen interview on the barriers – both real and assumed – to progress in the two sectors

2 February 2012 | spiked

All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy

Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs

17 January 2012 | spiked

Making a molehill out of a mountain

Clint Eastwood’s biopic of J Edgar Hoover is more about the man’s personal identity than his historical significance

24 December 2011 | Blueprint, 1987

The apostle of Cool

Interview with Dieter Rams, the crusading German designer of Braun products and much besides

7 December 2011 | spiked

The forgotten history of Pearl Harbor

Japan’s attack on the US 70 years ago was not a surprise, but rather the culmination of imperial rivalry

11 October 2011 | The Independent

The end is nigh: is survival all we can hope for?

In their policies for energy and for the economy, British politicians hold up continued existence as the maximum goal we should strive for

20 April 2011 | the next step, 15 July 1988

Remembering Piper Alpha

A year after the explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, an earlier, much deadlier blast in British waters still has plenty of relevance

30 March 2011 | spiked

Budgeting for a dismal no-growth future

For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing

26 November 2010 | spiked review of books

When Churchill starved India

Today, as Britain seeks to renew diplomatic links with India and Churchill is championed as a hero of multiculturalism, Madhusree Mukerjee’s shocking account of the exploits of the Empire is well worth reading

24 November 2010 | The Listener, 13 November 1986

Danger: pods at work

IT is a wonderful thing – but in certain conditions, it can desensitise

7 October 2010 | spiked

A very conservative approach to innovation

The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future