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 ...
This week I return to familiar ground and make no apology for having another look at demographic trends and our ageing population, a subject which has recently been the focus of attention for the new coalition government.
Last week Jack Goldstone, the author of 'The New Population Bomb' was speaking in Brussels, ...
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 ...
