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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 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 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 Budgeting for a dismal no-growth future For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing 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 A very conservative approach to innovation The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future The UK if everything was nearly half as much bigger A UK that's 41 per cent more innovative will not be simple to construct, but will be a radically different kind of place The defects of business models New ways of fleecing customers are no substitute for the hard graft of research, development and successful technological innovation Let’s go back to the Moon – and beyond As the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing approaches, backward attitudes here on Earth have tainted our view of lunar exploration Paying in cash: more than the strange pastime of a few Contactless debit cards, the decline of cheques and the rise, in Korea, of payments made by mobile phones: all raise the spectre of a cashless Britain. But that will never happen Risk-taking, R&D and the recession The woeful level of Western investment in R&D reveals much about the capitalists’ state of mind Today’s economic crisis springs from years and years of under-investment in research and development Interview with the late Herman Kahn, the man who pretty much invented forecasting 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 Eco-imperialism is alive and well in the West The West's pleading with China to cut carbon emissions bursts with ulterior motives Next Page |
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