“Society is paying the costs – alcohol-related harm is now estimated to cost society £21 billion annually.” So said David Cameron, launching the UK government’s alcohol strategy in 2012. The prime minister was echoing the widely held view that alcohol ....
By Steven McGinty “Singapore leads in all dimensions of digital readiness and scores high in economic competitiveness, citizen engagement as well as public sector productivity.” These are the words of Ng Wee Wei, Managing Director (Health & Public Service) at ....
By Morwen Johnson This week has been Open Access Week – an annual global event which is a chance for the academic and research community to discuss the benefits of Open Access, and inspire wider participation in helping to make ....
By James Carson To have a place, to live and belong in a place, to live from a place without destroying it, we must imagine it. Wendell Berry The worlds of place and imagination came together last weekend at EcoCultures, ....
By Stacey Dingwall While there are many areas in which there are indications of recovery since the recession, the scale of youth unemployment is a persistent problem. According to the latest labour market figures from the Office for National Statistics ....
By James Carson London’s Tube may be the oldest underground network in the world, but it’s still breaking new ground. Last month, engineers began testing a process that enables waste energy from Tube train brakes to be collected and recycled. ....
