Archive - Doctor Syn

Australia: A Vacation from a turbulent world

One half travel log, the other half a series of observations

Apr 23 •

Rian Chad Whitton

March 2025

Britain’s age of material austerity

Material consumption and production has declined as the economy has ground to a halt

Mar 25 •

Rian Chad Whitton

February 2025

The CBI is inflating Britain's Net Zero economy

The recent CBI report is puffing up Net Zero’s economic dividends. Government data describes a much smaller sector that will not offset industrial…

Feb 25 •

Rian Chad Whitton

Angus Hanton's screed against U.S. influence is eye-opening and worthwhile. But as befits a vassal, solutions are found wanting.

Feb 17 •

Rian Chad Whitton

October 2024

Laying the Foundations

A case for productive Fat Cats?

Oct 7, 2024 •

Rian Chad Whitton

July 2024

British Industry's Darwinian Fast

The industrial base has, since 2007, offset poor fundementals with higher productivity to produce about the same amount of value. We may well have run…

Jul 31, 2024 •

Rian Chad Whitton

Ineos: The petrochemical empire of Britain’s last industrialist

Jim Ratcliffe is Britain’s most prominent industrial magnate and the largest shareholder in a sprawling chemical enterprise. Exasperated by Britain's…

Jul 9, 2024 •

Rian Chad Whitton

January 2024

Firm Power can reduce Britain’s electricity prices

Geothermal and fission-based electricity are the foundation for a British industrial renaissance.

Jan 7, 2024 •

Rian Chad Whitton

November 2023

Direct Reduced Iron - the other way of making steel

Direct reduced iron represents an alternative to blast furnaces in making high quality steel, but is a marginal technology. It is being proposed as a…

Nov 7, 2023 •

Rian Chad Whitton

October 2023

An Appraisal of Rob Rory

A deep dive into Rory's Stewart's memoir. His critiques of politics and government are convincing, but his remedies are found wanting.

Oct 13, 2023 •

Rian Chad Whitton

September 2023

Critiquing Net Zero requires competence and peer review

A conservative report makes a howler and provides an open goal to Net Zero advocates

Sep 28, 2023 •

Rian Chad Whitton

Automation will be harder than the energy transition

Everywhere, countries are automating in a desperate attempt to increase productivity. Britain is barely in the game.

Sep 15, 2023 •

Rian Chad Whitton

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