We want automated clean, green ships for a modern economy and our oceans October 14, 2022 Just as Britain once manufactured the biggest and most powerful vessels, in the future we will build the cleanest and most technologically advanced, where vessels are piloted autonomously from our coasts, and where the Teslas of the seas are constructed in our yards.
Vodafone boss: Talking a big game won’t help Britain win the 5G race without action October 14, 2022 While the opportunity is clear, and our politicians are busy talking up the possibilities, the current numbers don’t add up.
Letters: Moving on, moving along October 14, 2022 [Re: Labour Party move their headquarters southside, October 11] If the Labour party do have a new HQ in South London it will spare them from Liz Truss and the Tories’ obsessive hatred of North London. Colin Price [Re: Digital documents Bill for UK’s £1.3tn trade industry, October 13 ] The passing of the UK [...]
Commons snapshot: a rather stiff parliamentary to-and-fro on energy October 13, 2022 The back-and-forth in the Commons yesterday between Liz Truss and Keir Starmer was like a ping-pong match – a rather boring one. The leader of the opposition accused the PM of favouring the rich and making working people “pay the bill”. He said her party was “lost in denial”. Truss, on her part, sounded stiff. [...]
Truss has picked the wrong fight: the problem is inflation, not lack of growth October 13, 2022 In her speech to what was left of Tory party conference, Liz Truss promised that her priority was “growth, growth, growth”. The events of the past week have underlined why that is the wrong priority, at the wrong time, by the wrong prime minister. Much has been made about the prime minister’s ideological convictions but [...]
One in a bullion: here’s the chance for City fund managers to replace Bitcoin with gold October 13, 2022 Over the course of last year, Bitcoin has enjoyed what has seemed like a never-ending rise in its market value. At the start of 2021, a single token was valued at $32,000, and by April that value had more than doubled. Traders were optimistic that the wider acceptance of Bitcoin by merchants and big banks [...]
It’s about moderate control: politicians don’t seem to get the public view on migration October 13, 2022 Attitudes can be fickle, at the best of times. Sometimes they can even be contradictory, with people supporting apparently opposing positions at the same time. On immigration, this could not be more true. New research by Ipsos for British Future, which has tracked public opinion on immigration issues since 2015, found that the public feels [...]
Letters: The case for solar farms October 13, 2022 [Re: If Truss wants growth, she needs to face down the rural lobby and back solar farms, October 7] It is a fallacy to say solar farms impede food production. The amount of UK land used for agriculture is 71 per cent. Of that, only 26 percent is used for crops. The rest is grassland [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Putin’s desperate bid to look tough escalates violence October 12, 2022 Moscow is running out of ammunition, and its military forces are exhausted. This assessment was provided yesterday by GCHQ chief Sir Jeremy Fleming – the man in charge of the intelligence agency. His comments came after the appalling bombing that shook Kyiv on Monday. Putin described it as retaliation following the bombing of the Kerch [...]
In Ukraine, the Middle East is starting to take sides and it could tip the scales October 12, 2022 Historically, the Gulf states have maintained a delicate balance in international conflicts outside of the Middle East and North Africa. This is a formula they adhered to when the Russia-Ukraine conflict broke out in February; keen to remain neutral, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were determined to be passive observers. But that may be changing. [...]