Jan
27
With Saturday 14th January marking one year since the ousting of President Ben Ali in Tunisia, we should take a moment to reflect on what the "Arab Spring" has achieved in the past year. We have seen the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and ...
There are increasing signs that the UK economy is faltering, with real difficulties to find a sound path to growth. Debt levels are very high historically, leading many to observe that we are living well beyond our means (and have been doing so for some time). And yet there still ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Forum’s panel from left to right: Frank Nigriello, Chairman of the Oxford Economic Partnership, Steve Baker MP, Richard Hume-Rothery, Chairman, European Forum, Dr Hanns Glatz, Former Delegate of the Board of Management, Daimler AG, James Elles MEP, Roland Freudenstein, Head of Research at the Centre for European Studies (CES).
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The internet has revolutionised our access to information, reducing the influence of media monopolies to dictate views and empowering individuals to have a wider knowledge of their environment. Picking up on this point I made in September (see here), the issue of empowerment of the individual has been in the ...
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 ...
