Jan
27
The United Nations predicts that the planet's seven billionth human inhabitant will be born this month, and the global population is expected to reach 10 billion by the end of the century. Furthermore, in a special feature on Demography, the Financial Times commented on 18th October that, "more than 70 ...
Continuing debates on both sides of the Atlantic show just how the world is separating into two communities. Those mostly in the Eastern part of the globe, other than Japan, have, like China, expanding economies, high growth rates, low interest rates and are heavily investing in infrastructure. In contrast, ...
Earlier this week, I gave a talk at the opening day of a week-long conference at the Moscow School of Political Studies, held just outside Moscow at Golitsino. This was the fifth time that I have been invited to do so since the year 2000. The audience was made up ...
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". ...
The visit of President Obama has been the highlight for the UK this week, illustrating the vital nature of the UK-US relationship to be a rock-solid bastion for promoting our jointly shared values and beliefs. As President Obama said in his historic speech to the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, ...
This week, newspapers have been filled with the Greek debt crisis and the UK's contribution of £4.3 billion to the bailout of Portugal. The Daily Express has been quick to say that it is "utterly wrong" that British money is being "squandered propping up a failing Eurozone". But would it ...
The Government's Green Paper, "A State Pension for the 21st Century", has caught public attention this week not simply because it tries to simplify a complex system but more specifically because of the plans to link the state pension age to life expectancy. Increasing the working age to 66 by ...
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 ...
Moves have been underway this week to appoint a new Director of Strategy in Downing Street. This follows the decision taken by the Prime Minister last November to close down the Downing Street strategy unit. Part of the role of this new Director of Strategy will be to shape a ...
