Just how will we have growth, ever again?
Tom Calver has a useful piece on where economic growth might come from.
Guess what? Yes, they’re picking losers again
Just to remind of the basics of dealing with climate change from the Stern Review.
Sportsfests are not useful investment, no
Morocco protests turn deadly as youth rage against World Cup.
Waste not, want not
Western economies are often castigated for producing too much waste. Maybe they do, because waste is a feature of the affluence that capitalism brings.
This did make us giggle Mr Chakrabortty. So there is that
Aditya Chakrabortty wants us all to know that the policies of Sr. Milei in Argentina are a disaster and that shows that the free market is all wet, even all wrong, in fact.
The Prince’s Reading Challenge
If I’d been asked in 1997 how I might encourage youngsters to read more, I dare say I might have come up with some worthy ideas.
Countries do not, in fact, trade
Taiwan has become the world’s biggest importer of Russian naphtha, a petroleum derivative used to make chemicals needed for the semiconductor industry, despite the fact that it has joined other sanctions against Russia and considers itself an ally of Ukraine.
Recruiting hackers
The news that MI6 is using the Dark Web to recruit spies sets one thinking about how me might recruit teenage talent to work with the force and abandon the dark side.
So should foreigners volunteer at food banks?
Over the decades we’ve said that we think food banks are an excellent - even glorious - idea. So we used to have this problem whereby hungry people did not have food.
The nordic model
The Scandinavian economic system, often referred to as the Nordic model, combines free-market capitalism with a strong welfare state.
More rights is true, but which rights?
We’ve always enjoyed the Work Foundation. Will Hutton takes over the old Industrial Society, makes it new, exciting and relevant and it then collapses into the arms of Lancaster University.
Concerns about Digital ID cards.
Earlier this year, hackers connected with the breach at Marks & Spencer claimed responsibility for a separate cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover.