Posts Tagged ‘credit crunch’

So the wheels are coming off the PFI movement. The government’s solution to building a lot of stuff we need without having to fork out too much of its own cash is now at a crossroads – the latest analysis I saw on this was in yesterday’s Observer. Given that the middle word in PFI [...]

What will the credit crunch do for Modern Methods of Construction? In the ten years since the Egan report came out, the construction industry and, in particular housing, has been inundated with calls to embrace factory production and lean manufacturing processes, and to do away with the waste, hassle and low quality which accompanies work [...]

To Pall Mall last night for a lecture from James Woudhuysen, the professor of forecasting and innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. Or alternatively a sustainability iconoclast. By that I mean he has it in for greenies that believe we need to rethink man’s role in the world. So out goes conservation, reduction or going [...]

Tony Benn writes in the Telegraph today that banks should have remained nationalised all along, much as Britain has a nationalised “army, police force, fire service, health care and education.” By handing power to the City and Wall Street, we face a threat to democracy just when that quality is most needed, he opines.

What a relief that the government of Iceland has impounded my savings! Those saved savings are safer than ever! Safe, even, from me trying to withdraw any of them to buy shoes, which is what I was intending to do this weekend. But that risk has now been kindly managed by