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‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned' A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the Yellow Peril Don’t let the miserabilists clip humanity’s wings Flight is one of man’s greatest achievements. Let’s challenge the greens and officials who want to snuff it out An engaging tale, packed with myths Christian Salmon’s book rightly notes the increasing use of narrative in modern life, but his ‘anti-capitalist’ instincts get in the way of understanding why Interview on innovation and the UK general election The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico shows the need to think big in undersea robots and every kind of technological innovation. British politicians, wake up! The defects of business models New ways of fleecing customers are no substitute for the hard graft of research, development and successful technological innovation Sights and insights from Mumbai and Kerala How the state is a roadblock to progress in innovation Obsessed with red tape, visionless governments are holding back the kind of big and risky developments society needs Why is Greenpeace calling on the UK to set an example to nations like China, when the Chinese are cleaning up faster than us? 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 Risk-taking, R&D and the recession The woeful level of Western investment in R&D reveals much about the capitalists’ state of mind The myth that New Labour is pro-nuclear Everyone from big business to greens imagines that British government policy favours nuclear energy. It doesn’t A Fu Manchu of the dot com age? Claims that Chinese cyber-spies are plotting world domination through the World Wide Web are greatly exaggerated Political writing: long live the cliche Andrew Rawnsley, one of Britain's leading political commentators, offers an excellent – if inadvertent – lesson in how to repeat tired old images and mangle metaphors, too. I've counted more than 30 lame phrases, and have highlighted them in yellow
Science, engineering and the two Cabinets How many of our leaders in New Labour and the Conservatives have any background in technology or business? The recession and the Politics of Fumbling The consistent incompetence of politicians does not come by chance: it's a symptom of their lack of a cohering ideology Next Page |
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