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Britain’s Broken Housebuilding Sector
What housebuilders want from politicians is business as usual. What politicians want from housebuilders are political donations […]
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Cambridge’s Latest Export – Biodiversity
In a world where anything we value has a price and is traded, hardly surprising a person’s access to biodiversity and clean water is determined by class. […]
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A Bitter Pill For Cambridge To Swallow
A testing time in Cambridge now that the European Medicines Agency is no longer based in Britain. […]
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Cambridge – Where Democracy Went to Die
Instead of wasting time on vanity projects perhaps our local councillors should work at making planning in Cambridge more democratic. […]
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Gone With The Flow
Once it was fear of the Soviet Union today it is angst over China and, with the recent sale of its spinout Flusso to Chinese investors, Cambridge University’s loyalties are again called into question […]
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A Dark Line On The Cambridge Horizon
Britain’s participation in an EU Horizon ‘Lite’ research program is being described by some as a no-brainer. For the EU certainly, but for Cambridge University perhaps not. […]
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Cambridge – Not Broke, But You Can See The Cracks
Should investors start worrying when estate agents begin to sound like experts in Life Sciences. […]
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AI – Back To The Virtual Future
Some of us could see this coming from a long way off. Thirty years ago we warned there might be the odd black hole in Cyberspace (what we called the Internet in the 1990s). Had we foreseen the emergence from this virtual world of a company with the size and reach of Google we would have assumed this, rather than its AI software, was the existential threat. […]
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Foodbanks – An Answer To Food Poverty, But Not The Solution
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket – Eric Hoffer […]
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How Will The NHS Cope When Deaths in Britain Reach a Million a Year?
There is tendency to regard the first year of each decade as a milestone and 2030 is no exception; this is the year the sale of petrol and diesel cars will end, wind farms will […]