The Unsteady Rise & Decline of Poverty and How to Tackle It November 14, 2022 | City Talk One of the largest issues that concern the world is poverty. Someone is described as living in poverty if they survive on less than $1.90 per day. From 2015 to 2018, global poverty continued to decline as it has done for the past 25 years. From 2015 to 2018, the number of those living in [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Amazon chases the robotic revolution in the retail space November 14, 2022 Amazon wants 100 per cent of its packaging to be managed by robots in the next five years. The retail giant is not far from this target, given three quarters of the packages it delivers have been – at least partially – wrapped up by a robot. Employees have been reassured that “the need for [...]
A call to arms: where will we find tomorrow’s bright Whitehall leaders? November 14, 2022 It is one of the most common, and pointed, criticisms of government in this country now that we are not finding leaders properly equipped to take the United Kingdom into the middle of the 21st century. For all his sociopathic behaviour and sheer oddness, it was the mission of Dominic Cummings to solve that problem, [...]
In search of a plug for the blackhole, Hunt must not cull investment in our future November 14, 2022 We are still spending comparatively little compared to other science superpowers such as Israel and South Korea. And the real benefits from investing in R&D aren’t typically felt for about ten years.
Financial resilience will be the backbone to withstand a tough winter recession November 14, 2022 The financial services industry must find ways to help people bridge this crisis by providing insurance premium wavers, affordable credit, and debt repayment deferrals.
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Explainer-in-brief: An NHS with too much to bear November 11, 2022 All year, the crisis in the NHS has been worsening, with many fearing the effects of the winter months and a flu season. But October was the worst month in the NHS’ entire history. The number of people waiting more than 12 hours in A&E hit 43,792, and only 69 per cent of patients were [...]
The age of politics by WhatsApp has damaged our trust in transparency November 11, 2022 “We all know how it works”, said the then prime minister David Cameron in 2010. “The lunches, the hospitality, the quiet word in your ear, the ex-ministers and ex-advisers for hire, helping big business find the right way to get its way.” What Cameron didn’t know when he gave the speech, which explicitly linked “secret [...]
If climate summits are to achieve progress, they should avoid the spirit of Glasgow November 11, 2022 Setting targets is easy. But we are at risk of repeating the same mistakes of Cop26.