Doctor Syn

The British machine tools gap

Out with skills. Just finance equipment spending

Aug 28 • 

Rian Chad Whitton

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Febrile Decay

Some graphs on Britain’s weird power sector

Aug 15 • 

Rian Chad Whitton

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Replacing LCREE with the Foundational Industrial Economy (FIE)

Based on the government’s own figures, the ‘Green’ economy is pretty small, and its manufacturing sector is tiny. We need a new arbitrary grouping of…

Aug 7 • 

Rian Chad Whitton

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April 2025

Australia: A Vacation from a turbulent world

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

Apr 23 • 

Rian Chad Whitton

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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 • 

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 • 

Rian Chad Whitton

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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 • 

Rian Chad Whitton

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October 2024

Laying the Foundations

A case for productive Fat Cats?

Oct 7, 2024 • 

Rian Chad Whitton

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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 • 

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 • 

Rian Chad Whitton

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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 • 

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 • 

Rian Chad Whitton

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