Defence procurement is back in the headlines as Secretary of State for Defence John Healey contemplates cancelling the £6 billion Ajax programme. Ajax is the UK’s single biggest order for an armoured vehicle in over 20 years and has been a disaster from start to finish. The programme is running eight years behind schedule, and […]
Last summer’s production of Richard III at Shakespeare’s Globe decided to be ‘brave’. Trump quotes were added to the script. The Duke of Buckingham was sporting a red baseball cap. The cultural resistance was back. Putting aside the cringe, it didn’t even work. Richard III tells the tale of a physically deformed but intellectually cunning […]
The UK has Schrödinger’s science and technology sector. On the one hand, we are a ‘science and technology superpower’. The strength of our R&D base is our national differentiator. Ministers celebrate the depth of the UK’s private markets. At the same time, universities demand more money to help commercialise innovation. Investors call on the government […]
