Amazon has apparently patented a floating warehouse system to be located in what are effectively airships floating at 45,000 feet above high density delivery areas.
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Is China leading the way in cracking down on NGO freedom?
As the FT reports today: Overseas charities and other non-profit groups in China are preparing to reduce their activities when a new law giving police
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Two million reads in 2016
A while ago I realised it was likely that my total reads on this blog in 2016 would exceed those in 2015. That actually happened
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Brexit will let us end the freedom of movement of capital – which we will have to do if we are to win from it
I think it would be hard for any reader of this blog to have missed my concerns about Brexit. Anyone with any degree of political
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Paul Nuttall needs to learn some basic economics
I am not usually inclined to engage with UKIP, but this morning Paul Nuttall, its leader has an article in the FT in which he
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What we need in 2017 is a new, democratic capitalism
2016 was interesting. Might we agree on that? I am not sure I would describe it as good. I am not sure I liked all
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The Brexality of the next few years is chaos for no gain
The Guardian has reported that: Theresa May is struggling to summon enough political courage to admit there will be difficulties in Britain’s exit from the
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The Conservatives have out-borrowed Labour for a century
I noticed that the Office for Budget Responsibility published government borrowing data for 100 years (actual and forecast) when producing its report on the last
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Twenty five questions for 2017
I tend to do a little preparation for most things I do. Here are some questions I thought of for use in 2017. Have you seen
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