Like all of those in our country watching the World Cup this month, we can breathe a huge sigh of relief that England is through to the last 16. We can take some comfort - perhaps only small - that a number of big European teams have also been struggling ...
One of the principal bases for this weekly blog is to look at long-term trends. Most of my information, for want of any other source material, comes from the NIC Global Trends 2025 report. With the current focus on energy security, I looked up what the document says about a ...
Last week's blog covered the Daily Telegraph's series 'Rebuilding Britain' and regretted that no one was listening to the call for better long-term planning (more of this in future blogs). For now I will continue looking at some of the themes that the series might have dealt with had they ...
In the introductory article of the Daily Telegraph's recent stimulating series 'Rebuilding Britain', Philip Johnston rightly says that better planning would help us in Britain no end. He comments that the British - though not uniquely - are bad at formal planning. It is not as if there are no ...
