Every year in the UK we throw away enough old cars, bits of aeroplanes, tin cans, washing machines, train tracks and knives and forks to cover 350 acres of Hyde Park and pile it sky high with scrap more than six foot deep. Most of this scrap metal – about 10 million tonnes a year […]
Professor Lord Mair is one of the world’s great engineering brains, a tunnelling expert who worked on the Jubilee line, the Channel Tunnel, on tunnels in Singapore, Amsterdam, Bologna, Warsaw, Barcelona and Rome and is advising CrossRail. Now Professor Mair has turned his attention closer to home; to Cambridge, where he lives, and where he […]
Few people outside Norway will have heard of Hege Storhaug. She’s the fiery Norwegian writer and human rights activist who has been warning for years that attempting to integrate so many Muslim immigrants is a danger to her country’s harmonious way of life and democratic traditions. A former athlete and now feminist activist, Storhaug runs […]
Whenever we drove over the top of the Gog Magogs hills on our way into Cambridge, and could spy the spires below, the children would cry out: “Are we in another country?” And we, laughing, would reply: “Yes, Cambridge Country!” How right they were. Cambridge really has become another nation; it’s one of the UK’s […]
Cambridge is growing faster than China, the city’s workers enjoy average earnings of £40,000-a-year, far higher than elsewhere in the country, and unemployment is one of the lowest. There are at least 2,100 high-growth, mainly technology and life-science companies, sprouting out of the Cambridge cluster as well as the older grand-daddy companies such as ARM […]
