EIB Investment Plan for Europe: Revolution in Use of Public Resources
The Marshall Plan did much to inject life into the post-war recovery of Europe. Initially comprising $13 billion, mostly in direct aid, the plan...
Eliot Higgins: Citizen Journalist Uncovering Inconvenient Truths
The Internet has become an essential part of modern life. A revised Hierarchy of Needs for the 21st century puts the right to a...
Oh What a Circus, Oh What a Show: Marissa Mayer and...
The struggling Internet portal, which in February announced plans to axe 15% of its workforce, was the gateway of choice to the internet for...
Book Review – Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone...
It remains somewhat of a mystery how Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne manages the UK government’s financial affairs. Presiding over a buoyant economy,...
Ilan Kapoor: Not Easily Impressed by Do-Gooders
Professor Ilan Kapoor doesn’t believe in participatory development. He considers the concept little more than a misleading slogan – harsher words have been used...
Hail to the Maintainers
About ten years ago, leftist firebrand satirist Freek de Jonge, the grand old man of Dutch stand-up comedy, turned to conservative newspaper De Telegraaf...
Daniel Ek: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Geek
When Swedish entrepreneur and digital hotshot Daniel Ek was 14, he was building web pages for friends using self-taught programming knowhow. And if everything...
Jeff Bezos: Transforming Retail into a Loss-Leader
Best known as the founding father of Internet behemoth Amazon, Jeff Bezos is more than a one-multi-global-success-trick pony. A divisive figure – mainly due...
