11 July 2008 | IT Week

Will insight lose out to inanity on the mobile web?

Mobile web’s business potential may be undermined by its more frivolous aspects

12 September 2007 | spiked

Like it or not, coal is vital to Asia’s growth

Those calling on China and India to ‘kick the coal habit’, and opt for less sooty forms of energy, overlook the vast benefits of coal use for those nations.

30 August 2007 | spiked

Let’s research our own R&D record

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development may be right that the Chinese are sluggish on research and development. But the same is true of America and Europe

18 August 2007 | Management Today, 1989

Back to the future again

Review of Steven P Schnaars, Megamistakes: Forecasting and the Myth of Rapid Technological Change, Free Press, 1989

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?

24 July 2007 | spiked

Three cheers for China’s ‘economic miracle’

Ignore the Yellow Peril view of Chinese economic growth as dirty and dangerous. There are good reasons to welcome China’s leaps forward

12 July 2007 | spiked

Let's fight back against the new Model Army

Like voodoo forecasts, computer models of climate change are being used to stifle political discussion and resign man to his Fate

June 2007 | Asian Hotel and Catering Times

Future traveller tribes

A new way of classifying air travellers has implications for hoteliers 360kB

21 June 2007 | spiked review of books

Is the Red Dragon a green threat?

Ignore the scaremongering of environmentalist writers and thinkers: China should be free to develop as it wishes

8 June 2007 | IT Week

Will an e-waste crisis be made in China?

In the world of IT, both energy use and e-waste look set to gain an Eastern aspect

7 June 2007 | Interview with First Tuesday, Zurich

The future of mobile content

The voice and the face are still enormously underrated 656kB

15 May 2007 | spiked

Come, friendly bombs, fall on Brown’s eco-towns

With his plans to erect zero-carbon homes in zero-car suburbs, Gordon Brown builds on the Blairites’ small-minded approach to housing

5 March 2007 | IT Week

Let robots take the strain

Robots have the potential to revolutionise peoples’ lives, but Whitehall doesn’t want to fund the research

5 February 2007 | Spiked

A man-made morality tale

How the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fairly sober summary of climate science has been spun to tell a story of Fate, Doom and human folly. Co-written with Joe Kaplinsky

27 January 2007 | Spiked

Gambling addiction: a panic at odds with reality

Top doctors, business consultants and officials reckon we could all end up enslaved by gambling – especially online. I wouldn't bet on it