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| Thursday 2 February 2012 |
All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy
Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs.
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| Tuesday 17 January 2012 |
Making a molehill out of a mountain
Clint Eastwood’s biopic of J Edgar Hoover is more about the man’s personal identity than his historical significance.
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| Wednesday 7 December 2011 |
The forgotten history of Pearl Harbor
ESSAY: Japan’s attack on the US 70 years ago was not a surprise, but rather the culmination of imperial rivalry.
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| Monday 10 October 2011 |
Is Britain drowning in too much packaging?
The wrapping that our food, mod-cons and medications come in is not ‘evil’ - it is a product of civilisation.
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| Tuesday 30 August 2011 |
Anna Hazare: apostle of political hygiene
James Woudhuysen reports from India on why the middle-class warriors against corruption aren’t so heroic.
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| Thursday 28 April 2011 |
One year on: learning the lessons of Deepwater Horizon
BP became so obsessed with rebranding itself, adopting irrational management-speak and enforcing petty health-and-safety measures that it overlooked the real safety of its workers.
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| Tuesday 12 April 2011 |
Yuri Gagarin’s brave, brilliant leap into the dark
On the 50th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight, James Woudhuysen praises Gagarin’s daring - and says we need more of it today.
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| Wednesday 30 March 2011 |
Budgeting for a dismal no‑growth future
For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing.
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| Monday 21 February 2011 |
Big Pharma, small ambition
Pfizer’s decision to close its UK research facility was born of an industry-wide angst about medical discovery.
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| Friday 26 November 2010 |
When Churchill starved India
Today, as Britain seeks diplomatic links with India and as Churchill is championed as a hero of multiculturalism, Madhusree Mukerjee’s shocking account of the exploits of the Empire is well worth reading.
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| Thursday 7 October 2010 |
A very conservative approach to innovation
ESSAY: The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future.
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| Friday 24 September 2010 |
Battle of Britain: empires at war
On the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain, it’s worth looking back at Richard Overy’s cutting-edge revisionist history, which shoots down many a myth.
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| Friday 27 August 2010 |
‘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’.
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| Thursday 12 August 2010 |
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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| Tuesday 3 August 2010 |
An exhausted approach to the energy issue
The Lib-Cons ‘energy policy’ is to encourage people to use less of it rather than to generate more of it.
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| Friday 28 May 2010 |
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.
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| Thursday 8 April 2010 |
Whatever happened to innovation?
ELECTION ESSAY: James Woudhuysen explores the roots of the establishment’s neglect of scientific and technological innovation.
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| Thursday 11 March 2010 |
How the state is a roadblock to progress
Red tape-obsessed, visionless governments are holding back the kind of big and risky innovation society needs.
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| Friday 29 January 2010 |
Do we need a more venturesome economy?
It is true that in the world economy, R&D, laboratories and national competitiveness aren’t everything – but they count for more than Amar Bhidé suggests.
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| Wednesday 11 November 2009 |
Still no clear policy on nuclear energy
New Labour’s commitment to nuclear is half-hearted at best, and goes hand in hand with more policing of our energy use.
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