Jan
27
The focus this week has been on preparations for the European Council in Brussels today and whether there will be agreement on the need for limited treaty change to strengthen the eurozone and stabilize the volatile markets. In this blog, I want to return to one of the recurring arguments ...
As the public debate deepens in the search for growth and the need to boost UK manufacturing, digital infrastructure is an area which is fundamental but is little understood. A number of contributions to this debate have been made recently which raises the valid question as to whether the UK ...
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 'Jasmine Revolution', spreading through the Arab world in the past month like a prairie fire, has highlighted the power that the internet has to create political change. Using social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter to organise themselves and to gather support, protestors are putting pressure on autocratic ...
Writing this blog from Seattle on America's West Coast, while visiting the Microsoft campus to discuss some strategic issues concerning long-term trends, I am once again struck by how quickly the world is changing as it adapts to new circumstances and fast moving information technology.
The US has been in the ...
As the European Parliament moves towards summer recess, and Members move into holiday mode - its a good moment to look back over the past six months to understand why politicians feel relieved that they have survived the unexpectedly tumultuous times through which they have lived (next week's blog will ...
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 ...
Now that the new European Commission has been endorsed by the European Parliament, let's go back to its policy agenda for the next five years which this blog has been covering since last summer.
Following the blog through the autumn, Barroso's attraction to a long-term vision has gradually evolved from the ...
