Last week I spent the day at the FT Climate Impact Summit in London, a gathering of industry leaders, policymakers, and innovators who share a common goal: tackling climate change while unlocking…
Surely we should have reinvented the train by now?
An interesting article in the Times today on HS2 and the proposed suggestion to cut its top speed by 40 mph from 225 mph to 185 mph reducing the energy it consumes.…
Proof that not all old technology is dead
News that China is investing heavily in the use of thorium in a next generation of nuclear power stations should not come as much as a surprise. The technology will provide clean,…
Tax avoidance or the problem with a global economy?
I have been quite interested over the past few weeks on the on-going press interest into multinationals that have been trading in the UK and dodging UK tax payments. Well that is…
Copying the ultimate flattery?
Great piece doing the rounds in the news yesterday was by a young American living in the remote town of Kunming in central China. The story starts with what looks like a…
Is China a bubble waiting to burst?
After a recent trip to China I was awed by the development going on in the country. I have for years read about its massive growth, investment opportunities and its ability to…
Google in the blue corner, China in the red
Interesting announcement by Google that they plan to pull out of China if the government can’t curb the hacking of email accounts on it’s free service offering, Gmail. It appears that there…
Problem with being first is you can’t stay there
News last week on Britain’s abysmal performance in the global rankings on broadband speed. Apparently Britain is 25th out of 66 countries across the world, dropping us one place over last year.…