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Could the Philippines be the spark for the next global conflict?
A row over a tiny Filipino island in the South China Sea has ramped up tensions between the US and China
Read the full article...What is China doing in the Philippines?
The South China Sea is a tinderbox waiting to ignite
Read the full article...China is in crisis
Xi is strengthening his grip over his party, the military and society
Read the full article...Net Zero is a war on the working class
We are sleepwalking towards a social and economic catastrophe
Read the full article...Labour’s green extremism will leave Britain in the dark
Keir Starmer’s plan to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 is insane
Read the full article...Net Zero is killing British industry
Port Talbot steelworks is just the latest casualty of our elites’ climate-change crusade
Read the full article...Taiwan’s future is more uncertain than ever
The fall in support for Taiwan’s anti-Beijing government will embolden Xi Jinping
Read the full article...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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@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.
A PRO-CAR CYCLIST WRITES: 12-1pm tomorrow on #R4, will be talking bikes, cars, pedestrians, public transport – and #JeremyVine
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](https://live.staticflickr.com/2870/11420639914_7d51683fd8.jpg)
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](https://live.staticflickr.com/3700/11420490576_3d6135f045.jpg)
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](https://live.staticflickr.com/5507/11419786543_ba373d45eb.jpg)
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
![Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars](https://live.staticflickr.com/3794/13618278573_97ccb732b0.jpg)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
![John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue](https://live.staticflickr.com/7456/12901946575_2d601b9e15.jpg)
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
![Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson](https://live.staticflickr.com/7327/12902292354_90e62f7006.jpg)
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](https://live.staticflickr.com/3764/11420896503_361c3f10ac.jpg)
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](https://live.staticflickr.com/2807/11420681265_2d41783cd8.jpg)
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](https://live.staticflickr.com/7387/11420416254_680c8184b5.jpg)
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](https://live.staticflickr.com/7294/11420333156_5948c053d3.jpg)
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](https://live.staticflickr.com/3666/11420032173_21fb524c2f.jpg)
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](https://live.staticflickr.com/5504/11419473945_515ff7bb2a.jpg)
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](https://live.staticflickr.com/3810/11337415136_a73599acce.jpg)
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
![Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone](https://live.staticflickr.com/7377/11337420424_c38634ccc8.jpg)
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
![George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking](https://live.staticflickr.com/2851/11337252366_dd93f5a1c6.jpg)
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
![Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire](https://live.staticflickr.com/3709/11337237736_dffd8070ef.jpg)
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
![Eugene Polley – TV remote controls](https://live.staticflickr.com/3824/11337167435_be19aab005.jpg)
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls