Published in The Financial Times (March 6, 2012) Every successful leader of the postwar age in Britain has understood a basic truth of politics: success depends on winning […]
Economics
Big Pharma’s demise is nothing to celebrate – our health is in their hands
Published in The Independent (December 3rd, 2011) You may not have heard the screams, but this was the week the drug industry fell off a cliff. The most profitable […]
Policy / Technology / Whitehall
It’s only your money going down the drain
Published in the Daily Mail (September 24th) The scandal is a parable for all that is wrong with government: a tale of such colossal arrogance, incompetence and waste […]
Technology
Losing from the start
Published in The Guardian (August 3rd, 2011) The whitewater rapids have run dry, the beach volleyball court has sprouted weeds and the aquatic centre contains little more than […]
Africa / Rwanda / Technology
My twitterspat with Paul Kagame
Published in The Guardian (May 17th, 2011) Returning home from a Saturday afternoon walk with the dog, I did what has become almost a reflex action and checked […]
Economics
Proof banks don’t have to be run the Gordon Gekko way
Published in the London Evening Standard (April 19th, 2011) So here we go again. More sound and fury over the banks. Last week began with the controversial results […]
Arts / Economics / Music
British music can still star as rock finds a new role
Published in the London Evening Standard (February 15th, 2011) Let’s get the party started. Tonight it is the Brits, that annual orgy of champagne and back-slapping that has […]
Technology
Can Twitter and the internet start a revolution?
Published in the London Evening Standard (December 7th, 2010) It began over drinks in a pub in Islington. Friends in their twenties – teachers, students, voluntary sector workers […]
Arts / Economics / Music
Record sales plummet but the music plays on
Published in The Times (October 22nd, 2010) The deeply wonderful Elvis Costello has a new record out. It is available as a download, on CD, on vinyl and […]
Technology
East London may be the birthplace of a new Facebook
Published in the London Evening Standard (October 19th, 2010) It all seems so simple. One moment they are a bunch of students playing around on computers in their […]