Oh Nick, I'm so sorry. from www.shutterstock.comThe Liberal Democrats have been left reeling by the collapse of their vote in the 2015 election, which has left them with just eight MPs in parliament. But within just a few days of the blow, something surprising started to happen – the party was experiencing one of the largest surges of...
Is the NHS 'a wretched bowl of alphabetti spaghetti', as David Cameron put it?James, CC BYThe NHS has faced numerous struggles in its 66-year history, from the financial crisis of the late 1980s, which prompted the Thatcher Review and led to the introduction of the NHS internal market in 1991, to the more recent Lansley reforms and the debacle of...
Plenty of gold - but who gets to keep it?CIFOR, CC BY-NCBig mining firms in the Democratic Republic of Congo are worried. For the past decade they’ve made good money from the country’s huge reserves of cobalt, diamonds, gold and copper, and now the government wants to grab more of the action: a document leaked to Bloomberg reveals...
Is the sun setting on Britain's military heft?MoD/Flickr, CC BY-SAThe new Conservative party’s pre-election manifesto included a commitment “to seek value for money in defence procurement, recognising the important contribution that the UK defence industry makes to our prosperity”. It also reminded us that Britain is currently...
In environments where the ground itself is constantly shifting, breaking, and being reshaped, every component must be built to endure. Mining operations are among the most demanding in the industria...
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If you’re in business, you might have seen it before. A team of capable and smart people just suddenly slows down, and things start spiraling out of control. On paper, everything looks perfect, but ...
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Across Australia, a lot of tradies are busy. There’s no shortage of demand in industries like plumbing, electrical, landscaping, and building. But being busy doesn’t always mean running a smooth or...
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