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The government vows to clear hurdles so the sector can flourish. Will it be enough? Official efforts to boost the life sciences sector are welcome,... (2023)
American sports leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL) are more competitive, lucrative and monopolistic than European ones like the English Premier League| Busine... (2023)
Trying to fight climate change and raise growth risks doing neither well | Britain (2023)
The decision barring the takeover of a big video game publisher is a major victory for proponents of regulating tech giants, which have faced obsta... (2023)
The controversial face recognition company was just fined $10m for scraping UK faces from the web. That might not be the end of it. (2022)
The UK has created a new visa for High Potential Individuals. Under the HPI visa any graduate from a top university as defined by “in the top 50 of... (2022)
For much of human history, our ancestors were trapped in an economy in which incomes were determined by the size of the population. The Industrial ... (2022)
How to make the country’s new innovation agency work | Leaders Some lessons on inventing the future in Britain (2022)
In 1988 The Economist invited the philosopher Karl Popper to write an article on democracy. It appeared in the issue of April 23rd that year and ma... (2021)
International students in the UK contribute £28.8 billion to the country’s coffers annually – an equivalent of every citizen being on average of £3... (2021)
Universities are urged to block a science research website, which police say could put data at risk. The City of London police's Intellectual Pr... (2021)
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly tr... (2021)
Uber has lost a long-running employment tribunal challenge in the U.K.’s Supreme Court — with the court dismissing the ride-hailing giant’s appeal ... (2021)
Conservationists are taking the first step towards a potential reintroduction of the Eurasian lynx to Scotland, with the launch of a year-long stud... (2021)
After a troubled year that saw broadband satellite operator OneWeb file for bankruptcy, get rescue finance from the UK government and Bharti, and t... (2021)
The damage will be noticeable but not disastrous (2020)
Wealthy nations have ordered millions of doses of unproven candidates, but equal access is the key to beating virus (2020)
In both New York and London, core office districts have been empty for half a year. Both cities face a long, hard slog of recovery. But London has ... (2020)
Many governments, especially in European countries, are handling unemployment differently, paying companies to keep their workers on the payroll un... (2020)
There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google. To both cryptographers and privacy ad... (2020)
Sure, you know Germany has pretzels and France has baguettes; but do you know how these carby delights came to be? Learn the history of bread from ... (2020)
5G cell towers in the UK are being set alight after conspiracy theories started spreading online. Groups on Facebook are spreading false informatio... (2020)
Action to prevent deeper access to our private lives and data is more essential than ever Health data paints a rich picture of our lives. Even i... (2020)
The city, stepping into a debate over privacy, says it will use real-time facial recognition technology “to tackle serious crime.” (2020)
The long read: A surge in anxiety and stress is sweeping UK campuses. What is troubling students, and is it the universities’ job to fix it? "Br... (2019)
The UK government today announced a £153 million investment into efforts to commercialize quantum computing. That’s about $193 million and with add... (2019)
Metropolitan Police officers set up the camera on a van in Romford, East London, which then cross-checked photos of faces of passers-by against a d... (2019)
For decades, the British title had a culture that tolerated vast losses. That makes its turnaround remarkable - but will it last? (2019)
Shops that minimise the environmental impact of our consumer habits are springing up across Britain. Could they help us avert catastrophe? (2019)
The UK is proposing a move to regulate social media platforms, and hold them accountable for the spread of like misinformation, and terrorist propa... (2019)
Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes, but critics say th... (2024)
Britain is one of the best places in the world to launder dirty money. Our new film tells you why—and asks whether that's likely to change.00:00 - ... (2023)
It's been more than five years since the UK voted to leave the EU, are they regretting their decision? This video was made possible by our Patreon ... (2022)
That was one of the more extraordinary interviews we have done here at UnHerd. Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiolog... (2020)
engineerguy Published on Jul 31, 2017 Download this audiobook, view the figures in the print version, or read the appendices. Fatal Flight: The ... (2018)
engineerguy Published on Feb 6, 2018 You can learn more about Bill's book Fatal Flight, The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship -- includi... (2018)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)
Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets have helped destabilize democracy on three continents. The power struggle among his children has world-changing cons... (2019)