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Australia: A Vacation from a turbulent world
One half travel log, the other half a series of observations
Apr 23
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Australia: A Vacation from a turbulent world
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March 2025
Britain’s age of material austerity
Material consumption and production has declined as the economy has ground to a halt
Mar 25
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Rian Chad Whitton
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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
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Rian Chad Whitton
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The CBI is inflating Britain's Net Zero economy
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Vassal State
Angus Hanton's screed against U.S. influence is eye-opening and worthwhile. But as befits a vassal, solutions are found wanting.
Feb 17
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Vassal State
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October 2024
Laying the Foundations
A case for productive Fat Cats?
Oct 7, 2024
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Laying the Foundations
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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
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Rian Chad Whitton
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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
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Rian Chad Whitton
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Ineos: The petrochemical empire of Britain’s last industrialist
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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
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Rian Chad Whitton
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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
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Rian Chad Whitton
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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
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Rian Chad Whitton
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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
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Rian Chad Whitton
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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
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Rian Chad Whitton
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