Once a death sentence, my diagnosis has proved a weird limbo of scattered treatment and blurred identities.
26/03/2023
There have always been two poles of cool: square, normie, basic stuff at one end; cutting-edge, avant-garde stuff at the other. Marvel movies versus musique concrète. Between the two is what can crudely be termed “semicool”: things that confer…
23/03/2023
Legacy IT is a multibillion-pound problem for the UK government. Outdated systems can impact safety and efficiency, and may not represent a good use of taxpayers’ money.
The industry is preoccupied with money-making, but the potential of shared computing could go far beyond finance.
22/03/2023
There was a hoopla in Colchester for the royal visit, with small children waving flags and a brass band.
It’s no understatement to say that these are tough times for small businesses. Global economic headwinds following the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have blown rising inflation, interest rates and energy bills through the door…
Major companies are cutting back on benefits, from free meals to laundry services – and our understanding of what makes a “good” workplace is shifting.
21/03/2023
Dumpster-diving with Patrick O’Hare, the anthropologist fighting for our right to what people throw away.
30/07/2022
Fifty years after the Limits to Growth report was published, the concept of post-growth remains largely taboo.
29/06/2022
The share of Scotland that is forested has increased from 6 per cent a century ago to around 18 per cent today.
08/04/2022
Reducing the environmental impact of meat is becoming big business. The CEO of Aleph Farm explains why he is betting on lab-grown meat.
01/12/2021
Planting millions of trees is part of the national recovery from the 1994 genocide, when 800,000 people were killed.
10/11/2021