In an interesting comment in The Times this week, David Wighton commented that "Decades of underinvestment have left large parts of Britain's physical infrastructure in a woeful state that seriously undermines our international competitiveness. Our airports and railways are badly overstretched and we lag behind many rival countries in broadband". ...
In the wake of the result of the Barnsley by-election last week where the UK Independence Party (UKIP) took second place with 12.1% of the vote, one commentator said that UKIP now represented the force which could allow people to regain control over their own destiny. How far is such ...
Tomorrow I will be addressing a regional seminar attended by all four Conservative MEPs from across the South-East on our planned work for the next year. The area I represent informally for the Conservative Party in the Thames Valley accounts for a combined population of over two million, covering over ...
How can the Thames Valley, and in particular Oxfordshire, provide the best digital infrastructure for the future? This was the question raised at the first 'Digital Summit' for the county which was hosted at the Culham Conference Centre, Abingdon, on Saturday 25 September. I suggested the idea of a digital ...
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Tomorrow I will be co-introducing a 'Digital Summit' for Oxfordshire with the Chairman of the Oxfordshire Economic Partnership at the Culham Conference Centre (see more details here). As I argued when observing the lack of mobile coverage in Oxfordshire earlier this year (see 22 Jan), the more ...
Readers of this blog will know that a favourite theme of mine is looking at the digital economy, which is now becoming the economy as technology permeates every aspect of our lives today. I touched on the subject of the Internet being friend or foe on 19 June last year ...
At a meeting of local business leaders last week, I was approached by a businesswoman concerned about how Britain and local businesses in Oxfordshire in particular were going to survive with much of the world’s economy shifting from the west to the east, particularly in India and China. One of ...
In the past few weeks, this blog has been raising issues which Mr Barroso should include in his policy agenda for the next five years. One of the most important themes which has been referred to by Mr Barroso in his guidelines document is the need for a 'European Digital Agenda', ...
Talking about influencing the political agenda, here is a great opportunity. Among the many items Barroso talked about in his political spiel for re-election (in otherwords, his 41 page document!), he said that the European Commission would develop a European Digital Agenda, but hasn't given any details. Surprising that in ...
