Tag: Labour
Big Tesco is watching you
Supermarkets are planning to deploy AI to police and meddle in our diets
Read the full article...Ed Miliband’s Net Zero agenda will leave Britain in the dark
Energy companies are already warning their customers about the power cuts to come
Read the full article...Environmentalism is at the root of the housing crisis
Labour’s pandering to green quangos shows it’s not remotely serious about building the homes we need
Read the full article...Labour’s green extremism will leave Britain in the dark
Keir Starmer’s plan to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 is insane
Read the full article...Labour’s elitist assault on housebuilding
Keir Starmer has sided with Brussels and the British aristocracy to block thousands of homes from being built
Read the full article...Labour could not be more wrong about working from home
Keir Starmer’s plan for a ‘right to work from home’ will let work take over our lives
Read the full article...Labour’s eco-aristocracy
Ed Miliband’s green policies would amount to a massive bung to the wealthy
Read the full article...Labour is living in eco-dreamland
Recycling failed policies will do nothing to solve the energy crisis
Read the full article...Why they can’t fix the housing crisis
Both the Tories and Labour dread the radical shake-up we really need
Read the full article...China’s productivity
The use of labour has been China’s main economic strength. Can it move beyond that?
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In order to have precisely no influence on the climate, but to make powerful people feel good about themselves we will have to suffer energy rationing.
Their virtue, our pain.
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls