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What is China doing in the Philippines?
Published 3 April 2024 No CommentsThe South China Sea is a tinderbox waiting to ignite
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China is in crisis
Published 12 March 2024 Comments Off on China is in crisisXi is strengthening his grip over his party, the military and society
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Net Zero is a war on the working class
Published 27 February 2024 Comments Off on Net Zero is a war on the working classWe are sleepwalking towards a social and economic catastrophe
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Labour’s green extremism will leave Britain in the dark
Published 5 February 2024 Comments Off on Labour’s green extremism will leave Britain in the darkKeir Starmer’s plan to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 is insane
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Net Zero is killing British industry
Published 23 January 2024 Comments Off on Net Zero is killing British industryPort Talbot steelworks is just the latest casualty of our elites’ climate-change crusade
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Taiwan’s future is more uncertain than ever
Published 16 January 2024 Comments Off on Taiwan’s future is more uncertain than everThe fall in support for Taiwan’s anti-Beijing government will embolden Xi Jinping
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Are the Houthis dragging us toward a global trade crisis?
Published 8 January 2024 Comments Off on Are the Houthis dragging us toward a global trade crisis?The attacks on Red Sea ships are having a dangerously outsized impact on the global economy
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The battle for the Arctic
Published 28 December 2023 Comments Off on The battle for the ArcticRussia, China and the West are scrambling for control over the frozen tundra
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@jameswoudhuysen I use my bicycle every day. Exercise and access to shopping without any parking meters and all that fuzz. But alfa-cyclists are the worst. They are competing at 40 mph and always acting rudely to get where they are going.
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Stimulating piece on the #CrisisOfCustomerService by clever @ClaerB @FT.
All that Clinton-era #CustomerExperience guff was always for the birds - certainly compared with, er, price.
The new thang? Often there is NO service - and thus no #CX!
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Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls