Tunnel at amphitheatre, Pompeii, 2000
The Romans, at least, had confidence in an urban future. The United Nations dreads it.
Picture: James Woudhuysen

Politics

27 August 2010 | spiked review of books

‘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

12 August 2010 | spiked

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

28 May 2010 | the spiked review of books

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

29 April 2010 | BBC Radio 4 Material World

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!

18 April 2010 | Interview with Grant Thornton

The defects of business models

New ways of fleecing customers are no substitute for the hard graft of research, development and successful technological innovation

7 April 2010 | Proof

Letter from India

Sights and insights from Mumbai and Kerala 1.3MB

11 March 2010 | spiked

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

7 July 2009 | spiked

The green man’s burden

Why is Greenpeace calling on the UK to set an example to nations like China, when the Chinese are cleaning up faster than us?

29 June 2009 | spiked

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

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

1 May 2009 | spiked

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

7 April 2009 | spiked

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

30 March 2009 | Special to Woudhuysen.com

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 76kB

24 March 2009 | New Civil Engineer

Science, engineering and the two Cabinets

How many of our leaders in New Labour and the Conservatives have any background in technology or business?

19 March 2009 | spiked

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

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