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| Friday 30 October 2009 |
State intervention is no substitute for innovation
British industry isn’t dead by any means, but if low-carbon jobs and protectionism trump new research and development, it soon will be.
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| Wednesday 19 August 2009 |
New Labour’s power vacuum
The UK government’s obsession with energy self-sufficiency and renewables looks set to lead to blackouts in the next few years.
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| Tuesday 21 July 2009 |
Who’s afraid of electric vehicles?
Green opposition even to eco-friendly electric cars shows that what environmentalists really dislike is travel itself.
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| Tuesday 7 July 2009 |
The green man’s burden
Why is Greenpeace calling on the UK to lecture nations like China, when the Chinese are cleaning up faster than us?
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| Monday 29 June 2009 |
Let’s go back to the
moon — and beyond
As the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing approaches, backward attitudes here on Earth have tainted our view of lunar exploration.
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| Friday 26 June 2009 |
Gladwell: hero or zero?
One reviewer is disappointed that Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers reveals more about the author’s prejudices than it does the nature of success, while another is won over by Gladwell's emphasis on hard work.
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| Monday 15 June 2009 |
Risk-taking, R&D and the recession
Contributing to the spiked/CMP debate on the future of business, an innovation expert demands real wealth creation.
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| Wednesday 27 May 2009 |
An R&D recession
Today’s economic crisis partly springs from years and years of under-investment in research and development.
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| Thursday 30 April 2009 |
The myth that New Labour is pro-nuclear
Everyone from big business to greens imagines that British government policy favours nuclear energy. It doesn’t.
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| Tuesday 7 April 2009 |
A Fu Manchu of the dot com age?
Claims that Chinese cyber-spies are plotting world domination through the World Wide Web are greatly exaggerated.
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| Thursday 19 March 2009 |
The recession and the Politics of Fumbling
The consistent incompetence of politicians is no accident: it is testament to their lack of a cohering ideology.
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| Friday 30 January 2009 |
The world needs abundant, cheap, clean energy
In an extract from their new book, Energise!, James Woudhuysen and Joe Kaplinsky argue that climate change is real, but the answer is to invest boldly in new forms of power supply not moralise about personal consumption.
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| Monday 12 January 2009 |
The CFLs are on, but nobody’s home
The mad green war on light bulbs won’t save much electricity - it’s about enforcing moral rectitude in the home.
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| Monday 22 December 2008 |
Global rivalries go green
Climate change will be a central part of government agendas in 2009 - and a rich source of diplomatic squabbles, too.
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| Wednesday 16 July 2008 |
Nothing Romantic about environmentalists
The great nineteenth-century English poets waxed lyrical about nature, but they still believed in humanity - unlike today’s eco-pessimists.
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| Wednesday 2 April 2008 |
London 2012: where’s the Olympic Spirit?
Officials don’t care about sport for sport’s sake: they want the Games to boost British self-esteem, fix public transport and solve global warming.
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| Wednesday 12 December 2007 |
Knocking the wind out of the energy debate
The UK government department in charge of energy is strangling urgently needed generation schemes in red tape, precaution and ceaseless consultation.
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| Monday 5 November 2007 |
Brown's 'get fit' towns:
Kim Jong-il would be proud
With its new towns that will force people to keep fit, New Labour is pushing an authoritarian health agenda that will be the envy of tinpot dictators.
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| Friday 26 October 2007 |
Clausewitz after 9/11
The Prussian master's brilliant analytical method in On War provides richer insights into the contemporary wars against terrorism than anything his glib critics have come up with.
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| Wednesday 10 October 2007 |
Why greens don’t want to ‘solve’ climate change
Environmentalists are cagey about techno-fixes to climate change because berating mankind for its impact on nature is their raison d'être.
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