Facing the future
Dave Rawlings helps get around that perennial problem……….When resolution is not enough! Are you looking forward to 2018 in hope and anticipation or in fear and trepidation? That might depend on whether…
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Brexit’s international cheer squad loses its voice
Geoff Kitney explains why UK voters have good reason to be anxious about the long-term consequences of the Brexit vote. Brexit’s international cheer squad appears to have fallen silent. The thinning of…
Delivering economic salvation
Murray Ritchie poses the question: With the emergence of Cyril Ramaphosa as president-in-waiting of South Africa can the so-called economic powerhouse of Africa finally live up to expectations? Not since Mandela has…
Plasma drive puts Mars within reach for humans
EXCLUSIVE Interplanetary travel: science has finally caught up with fiction, James Fitzgerald discovers. Gene “Star Trek” Roddenberry’s vision of a pioneering intergalactic society has been with us since the 1960s, but only…
Lesson 1: No nation makes deals based on compassion
Potential trade partners see a weak negotiating partner so desperately in need of markets to replace the EU that the UK will have little choice but to make concessions favouring other parties,…
Brexit – how they conspire to confuse
There is no way the EU in its present mood of disenchantment with the UK will give us a break. Why would it, asks Murray Ritchie. So there we have it. We…
When regulation is not a dirty word
In a week of political brinkmanship regulations have become a thorny subject, but aligning regulations is a practical way to make relationships work, as is eminently demonstrated in healthcare, John Egan writes….
Healthcare & AI: making the black box transparent
Combine two immiscible and complex topics and the outcome is a devil’s amalgam of issues to resolve, as a House of Lords select committee exploring uses of artificial intelligence in healthcare discovered…
Analysis: Amazon and the power of capital
On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, we add our energy-dissipative view of the interactions of labour and capital in the operations of a commercial enterprise. Boil…
Politics wrecked the car industry
Now the Australian Coalition Government must decide if it will protect the high-skill high-wage jobs in advance manufacturing that it generated, writes shadow Industry Minister Kim Carr. When General Motor’s Australian subsidiary, Holden,…