Brave New World

Industry’s Most Exciting Space: Untold Billions Showered on Battery and Electric Vehicle Technology and Production

Earlier this week, the first lithium-ion battery cell rolled off the assembly line of Europe’s newest so-called gigafactory – a…

3 years ago

Former Student Protest Leader Claims Presidency in Chile

A land of geographical and political extremes, Chile seems to have rejected moderation and elevated a former student protest leader…

3 years ago

Too Much of a Good Thing: Inflation Spike Puzzles ECB – Engage or Ignore?

For years on end, central bankers in Europe and the United States have tempted providence to deliver a modicum of…

3 years ago

The Fallacy of ‘Chinese Characteristics’: Critique of Liberal Democracy Misplaced and Premature

Amongst political philosophers, it has of late become fashionable to hail China as a model of effective governance. The country’s…

3 years ago

Brand-Power is Real — but the Goalposts Won’t Stop Moving

From the upstarts to the everlasting, branding and marketing drive sales.   That goes beyond mere recognition, and requires a…

3 years ago

Uncertainty and Pessimism Surround Emergence of the Omicron Variant

The Omicron variant will either be a major development in the Covid-19 crisis… or a blip on the ever-changing, post-pandemic…

3 years ago

Energy Sector Grapples with Hydra-Headed Problems of Global Supply and Demand

At the recent COP-26 climate summit in Glasgow, government officials and leaders of international organisations put the spotlight on the…

3 years ago

Inflation, Used Cars, Silicon Chips and Supply-Demand: Links in a Worrying Chain

Chips — no, not the potato or chocolate kind, the electronic ones – are a driving force behind a spike…

3 years ago

World Bank: Sustained Global Solidarity Needed to Achieve Global COVID-19 Recovery

The pandemic has affected virtually everyone in the world, but its impacts have been hardest on the poor and vulnerable,…

3 years ago

Invasion of the Robots! Beware, Beware! Just Because We Can Doesn’t Mean That We Should…

AI, facial-recognition, machine learning… where should humans draw the line when it comes to automated ‘job theft’? Yogesh Patel gives…

3 years ago