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One year on: learning the lessons of Deepwater Horizon BP became so obsessed with irrational management practices and petty health-and-safety measures that it overlooked the real safety of its workers 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 Yuri Gagarin’s brave, brilliant leap into the dark On the 50th anniversary of the first manned flight space, we need more of Gagarin’s old daring Budgeting for a dismal no-growth future For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing Management issues for design businesses To win through with clients, designers need to master future trends, communicate their ideas with the maximum clarity, do good research, and also closely follow developments in innovation and marketing In new products and services, an orientation to realism and to engineering in its broadest sense will ensure that design's answers are substantive, not superficial Pfizer’s decision to close its UK research facility was born of an industry-wide angst about medical discovery 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 IT is a wonderful thing – but in certain conditions, it can desensitise Even in his late seventies, the late American graphics giant Paul Rand did working days at the most energetic pace. For creatives everywhere, he remains an example A very conservative approach to innovation The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future Battle of Britain: empires at war On the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Richard Overy’s account shoots down many a myth 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 ‘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 |
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