Addicted To Novelty
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Initially, my first paragraph was about the amazing and baffling technological changes that have taken place in the last ten years, the creations that I really don’t understand, that…
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Crap Towns
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Could our kids do the same today? They have got something we didn’t have – the internet – but their opportunities to experiment at face-to-face retail are limited, and our…
Light At The End Of The Tunnel
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Climate scientists in government and universities run simulations of future climate that show a very sobering piece of arithmetic. If we are to avoid tipping the planet over the widely…
Dare To Be Different
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A white stag was sighted in the highlands of Scotland a few months ago. The appearance of such a rare creature has been considered from time immemorial an omen in…
Right From The Start
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Learning your place Let’s start at the beginning. It kicks in at a particular developmental stage in childhood, when unfairnesses are felt more keenly possibly than ever again.…
A Fair Cycle
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So why are we being so slow? We can’t blame the weather, as our more northerly European neighbours have grasped the cycling nettle. In most cases we can’t blame…
Black Arts
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Sundsvaal, summer 1990, the lobby of a Swedish hotel. An American lobbyist for the coal and oil industries, a former US government official, sits surrounded by diplomats from OPEC countries.…
Coming Of Age
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The good news is that you no longer have to imagine: ECO – aka Eco Age – has done it for you. And rather beautifully, it must be said. This…
Creative Energy
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It is not an impossible ask. This generation can be exalted, remembered and leave an impact as epoch-making as the Victorians’ with their Industrial Revolution, which lifted millions of…
