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2026 12

  1. Pace Layers as a sense-making device
  2. The next industrial revolution
  3. What will happen in the 2030s
  4. Creating a politics of longing
  5. Understanding systemic change by looking at the Grenfell Tower
  6. ‘The Fizz’ and transformative futures
  7. Culture, change, and ‘structures of feeling’
  8. What kind of business is the AI business?
  9. AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing
  10. Britain’s political eruption
  11. Plants and the great cognition debate
  12. A handbook for regenerative design

2025 14

  1. Making sense of futures
  2. Party politics is realigning itself
  3. Crises of care, crises of work
  4. Breaking the industrial food system
  5. Taking down the Grenfell Tower
  6. The impact of sea level rise on the world’s cities
  7. Paying for parking, or, we’re all Shoupistas now
  8. Creating a politics of the future
  9. Limits to Growth was right about collapse
  10. Understanding Trump’s tariffs
  11. The steps to an American oligarchy
  12. ‘Power and interest’ as an actor mapping tool
  13. Understanding the so-called obesity ‘wonder drugs’
  14. Books of 2024–some old, some new

2024 27

  1. Big Food, Big Tobacco, and ultra-processed foods
  2. States have a shelf life of about 200 years
  3. Creating paths for change
  4. The great fertility shift
  5. Six narratives about Trump’s election
  6. Soft simulations and the next attack on the Capitol
  7. Designing organisations that work
  8. Keeping students in school, instead of failing them
  9. Wrestling with Britain’s ‘stagnation’ crisis
  10. Changing the ‘toxic’ discourse on migration
  11. Cybernetics and the science of managing our crisis
  12. Understanding systems thinking
  13. The Red May Day and the Green May Day
  14. Looking for hope
  15. Asking questions about the future
  16. Using ‘literary futures’ to open up the imagination
  17. Young men and the problem with masculinity (Pt 3)
  18. Unravelling the gender politics of young men [Pt 2]
  19. Young women are becoming more radical. Young men aren’t. [Pt 1]
  20. Building the democratic local economy
  21. The ‘vast uncertainty’ of AI and jobs
  22. Why business futures isn’t about managing uncertainty
  23. The IMF’s AI and jobs report
  24. How Davos works
  25. Planning for degrowth
  26. Busy doing the wrong things
  27. Bullying your workers and ‘defending the brand’

2023 40

  1. Looking at the future from the past
  2. Imagining the future of food in a net zero world
  3. Images of the future
  4. Solving the ‘gnarly problems’ of business
  5. Turn off, tune in: psychedelics and depression
  6. Mapping the actors
  7. How to live without growth
  8. Breaking the law in response to climate change
  9. Searching for systems in Three Horizons
  10. ‘Meddling kids’ win landmark climate case in the US
  11. The long boom that wasn’t
  12. Climate politics and culture wars
  13. The humans that make AIs seem human
  14. Tech bros say the sky is falling in
  15. Elites, political disintegration, and ‘cliodynamics’
  16. Paying for clean water
  17. Turning utility companies into investment vehicles
  18. Why we choose narcissists as leaders
  19. From photography to “promptography”
  20. Changing our deep narratives
  21. Looking for the money in the AI business
  22. It’s better to believe in luck
  23. How Britain’s four-day week pilot turned out
  24. Changing how businesses think about transition
  25. ‘Industrial wheatscapes have many ghosts’
  26. Making business sustainable
  27. A lexicon of time
  28. The long century of the car
  29. Why breadth usually beats depth
  30. The ‘enshittification’ of the corporate world
  31. How to accelerate the transition
  32. We are all modern now
  33. Tom Nairn and the power of nationalism
  34. War and the civilian
  35. Against everything
  36. The future of cities and the future of work
  37. The end times
  38. Giant Leap, or Too Little Too Late
  39. Mapping the future(s)
  40. How Britain fell in and out of love with roads

2022 17

  1. Making change
  2. Tacit knowledge and high value work
  3. Seeds of a better future
  4. Modernity and our crisis of meaning
  5. Breaking Twitter
  6. The history of the office
  7. The politics of Britain’s ‘mini-budget’ crisis
  8. The monarchy, the mirror, and the mythology
  9. Breaking Britain’s energy ‘market’
  10. Uber and the political economy problem
  11. Five things I’ve learnt about horizon scanning
  12. The finance curse and the British economy
  13. Social change isn’t accelerating
  14. Working with systems
  15. Rethinking insulation
  16. Living without ‘machines’
  17. America’s fears of the next civil war

2021 34

  1. Making the transition happen
  2. Assessing the prospects for technologies
  3. Stephen Sondheim and the re-invention of the modern musical
  4. The rise and fall of scenario planning
  5. Racism and the battle for the ‘bystanders’
  6. The IEA starts believing in energy transition
  7. Creative lessons from the Velvet Underground
  8. The trouble with exponentialism
  9. The fight over food at the UN’s Food Summit
  10. Lessons from Afghanistan
  11. Revisiting The Limits to Growth
  12. The decline of the Olympics
  13. Mapping journeys to net zero transport
  14. Learning from history
  15. The difference between data and decisions
  16. A revolution of the imagination
  17. AI and the ‘robo-apocalypse’ story
  18. The complete history of an AI
  19. Making algorithmic bias political
  20. The ethics of AI
  21. The visions that launched AI
  22. After neoliberalism: the politics of place
  23. The constrained future of aviation
  24. Football: guardians and traders
  25. The non-fungible business of digital art
  26. Rescuing nature
  27. The value of biodiversity
  28. Sowing the seed of the future
  29. Jeff Bezos: old-school American tycoon
  30. The male, male, world of industrial design
  31. The trouble with Davos
  32. Making sense of the Gamestop moment
  33. A turning point for climate change?
  34. Announcing ‘Just two things’

2020 28

  1. Sixes and Sevens #45
  2. Sixes and Sevens #44
  3. Making long-term decisions
  4. Big tech and its limits
  5. Sixes and Sevens #43
  6. Sixes and Sevens #42
  7. This is what Millennial politics looks like
  8. Seeing around corners
  9. The world the coronavirus makes (2 of 2)
  10. Sixes and sevens #41
  11. Sixes and Sevens #40
  12. Sixes and Sevens #39
  13. Sixes and sevens #38
  14. Sixes or sevens #037
  15. The world that coronavirus makes (Part 1 of 2)
  16. Sixes and sevens #036
  17. Sixes and Sevens #035
  18. Sixes and Sevens #034
  19. Sixes and sevens #033
  20. Re-reading Future Shock, 50 years on
  21. Sixes and sevens #032
  22. Sixes and Sevens #031
  23. Reading the ‘Davos Manifesto’
  24. The business challenges of the 2020s
  25. Sixes and sevens, #030
  26. Sixes and sevens #029
  27. Sixes and sevens #028
  28. Sixes and sevens #027

2019 41

  1. The end of the inner self?
  2. Skyfall’s future
  3. Sixes and Sevens #026
  4. Sixes and sevens #25
  5. One or two things I understand about #GE2019
  6. Sixes or sevens, #024
  7. Sixes or sevens #023
  8. Public strategy mistakes
  9. Sixes and Sevens #022
  10. Sixes and sevens #021
  11. Sixes and sevens #020
  12. Sixes and sevens #019
  13. Ruskin, futures, and ways of seeing
  14. Sixes and sevens #018
  15. Sixes and sevens #017
  16. Sixes and sevens #016
  17. Sixes and sevens #015
  18. Patterns of change
  19. Sixes and sevens #014
  20. Ripping off the plaster
  21. Sixes and Sevens #013
  22. Sixes and Sevens #012
  23. Sixes and Sevens #011
  24. Ten notes on the cocaine business (part 2 of 2)
  25. Ten notes on the cocaine business [part 1 of 2]
  26. Sixes and sevens #010
  27. Sixes and sevens #09
  28. Sixes and Sevens, #08
  29. Brexit and long wave thinking
  30. Energy blackouts and black elephants
  31. Sixes or Sevens, #07
  32. Sixes or sevens #06
  33. Theories of change and theories of the future
  34. Sixes or sevens #05
  35. Sixes and sevens #04
  36. Sixes and sevens #003
  37. Sixes and sevens #002
  38. Sixes or sevens #001
  39. The futures diamond
  40. Stubborn and stupid
  41. The Tofflers’ competing futures

2018 11

  1. Talking about the Scenarios 2018 conference
  2. The politics of place and the new politics of work
  3. Distraction, rest, and the future of work
  4. The curse of Thomas Malthus
  5. Britain’s fault-lines
  6. Imagining enclaves
  7. The customer comes last
  8. Dilemma thinking
  9. Review: Transformative Innovation
  10. The desperation of hope
  11. Agitators, innovators and orchestrators

2017 26

  1. Capitalism’s toxic heart
  2. On Three Horizons
  3. Brexit hits its zugzwang moment
  4. Re-reading Pierre Wack on scenarios
  5. On visioning
  6. America’s retail debt crisis
  7. The gut
  8. James Meade and the automation problem
  9. “Tools for Hope”: futures for change
  10. The limits of surveillance capitalism
  11. Main Street versus Wall Street
  12. Chaos in the Valley
  13. Globalisation, nations, and cities
  14. Breaking up with Brexit
  15. The future of platform capitalism
  16. Some things I learned from GE2017 [1 of 2]
  17. Podcasting
  18. The end of smoking
  19. Grenfell Tower, predictable surprises and slow violence
  20. The new politics of place
  21. Article 50 and after
  22. Hans Rosling, 1948-2017
  23. Revisiting the Ik
  24. Spending time with Donald
  25. Seven futures from New Scientist
  26. Remembering Mark Fisher

2016 24

  1. Some more things I know about Trump
  2. Some things I know about Trump
  3. ‘Found’ post on the US election
  4. The future of work
  5. Oligarchs and executives
  6. Heathrow as cargo cult
  7. World Factory
  8. Dirty lenses
  9. Unpeeling the city
  10. Punk as scapegoat, culture as crisis
  11. Making futures work stick
  12. Apple’s Irish problem and the end of the tech boom
  13. Making the regenerative city
  14. Three Horizons and future transformation
  15. The solar transition
  16. The fear of the future
  17. Shakespeare’s ‘strangers’
  18. The EU referendum and the England problem
  19. Handing knowledge down the years
  20. Crossing the divide
  21. Paint it black
  22. 1816 and all that
  23. Robin Hood, austerity, and the “burden” of tax
  24. Trading down

2015 35

  1. William Morris and David Gentleman
  2. Trapped in the moment of birth
  3. Futures and metaphors
  4. The human face of High Value Work
  5. Futures methods
  6. Britain’s forty year political crises
  7. Migrants and refugees and Paddington Bear
  8. Gods of Metal
  9. Designing for sociability
  10. Back to the future for work
  11. Fighting over democracy
  12. Watching a pandemic
  13. Wars, hegemony, and long waves
  14. Some notes on Obama in Charleston
  15. Disturbing the future: my ‘Five Books’ interview
  16. Long waves and the innovation question
  17. Utopias and six generations
  18. Long waves: discussing the evidence
  19. Insiders and outsiders
  20. Thinking about long waves
  21. Politics, parties, and positioning
  22. Four things I learnt from that “business leaders’ letter”
  23. The working of non-violence
  24. From urban paradox to Ecopolis [2/2]
  25. The trouble with Petropolis [1/2]
  26. Game theory and the king’s new clothes
  27. Taxes and corruption
  28. Dicing with death in the Eurozone
  29. The End of Absence: review
  30. “Looking and not blinking”
  31. The precariat and the basic income [Part 2]
  32. The precariat and the basic income [Part 1]
  33. Remembering Leon Brittan
  34. The battle with bullshit
  35. Back to the future

2014 18

  1. The end of the future
  2. “Bad apples” and rotten audits
  3. The strange death of Conservative England
  4. Seven notes on the #IndyRef and its aftermath
  5. Looting the public
  6. The clearing system and the universities
  7. The Tesco problem
  8. Managing a crisis
  9. In search of European democracy
  10. Anticipating the next wave of technology
  11. Loosening the grip of oligarchy
  12. Postcards as a workshop tool
  13. Some lessons from the Co-op
  14. Cultures of integrity
  15. A bill of digital rights
  16. China’s prospects
  17. Bringing it back home
  18. Jobs and productivity, from the Economist

2013 27

  1. In harm’s way
  2. Good and bad strategy
  3. 1964: James Meade and the automation problem
  4. Work & automation: a festival of links
  5. Robots 101
  6. The beat’s fashion sense
  7. The coming decline of London
  8. Reframing politics
  9. Gutenberg’s complete system
  10. Straining the train
  11. The dark heart of Whitehall
  12. Public spaces, public places
  13. Spies, security, and democracy
  14. The cause of the suffering
  15. Out of the shadows
  16. Why disco won
  17. 1932 and all that
  18. The curse of the invisible interface
  19. Losin’ the kids
  20. ‘Freedom’, ‘choice’, and zombie capitalism
  21. Ten notes on the financial crisis (guest post)
  22. The hollow city
  23. Made in Britain? Not so much
  24. Last man standing (part 2)
  25. Last man standing (part 1)
  26. Trains and cars
  27. Passion’s new business models

2012 22

  1. Guns and cars and commonsense (guest post)
  2. The New North
  3. 4 degrees and counting
  4. Opening the future
  5. Flying blind
  6. Scenarios, the world economy and poverty
  7. The plug-out city
  8. Some notes on fish
  9. Re-reading The Limits to Growth
  10. The Future of Futures
  11. The future of golf
  12. Breaking the bank (part 2)
  13. Breaking the bank (part 1)
  14. Thinking in miracles
  15. The human factor
  16. From ownership to stewardship
  17. Talking energy blues
  18. ‘Occupy’ as public innovation
  19. Library futures
  20. Copyright wars
  21. The values of work
  22. Best practice in strategic futures

2011 20

  1. The long view of technology
  2. Playing the development game
  3. Privatising public space (2)
  4. Privatising public space (1)
  5. Coming shortly: the APF’s virtual futures conference
  6. Plutonomy retail
  7. Sharper, not flatter
  8. Inter-generational conflict and moral panic
  9. Notes on the riots
  10. Apologies
  11. Debt and disorder
  12. Guardians, traders, and public policy
  13. Cultural futures
  14. Twittering about the law
  15. Servant of two masters
  16. Re-visiting Ireland’s boom years
  17. The future of food (2 of 2)
  18. The World In 2020
  19. The future of food (1 of 2)
  20. Global boosters

2010 29

  1. Playing the risk game (2 of 2)
  2. What the future learns from the past
  3. The limits of ownership
  4. Leadership, resilience, and ‘Lord Franklin’
  5. Hacking the low tech future
  6. Thinking about Ed
  7. The 1910 time traveller
  8. Transport and the lock-in problem
  9. Understanding the financial crisis
  10. Playing the risk game (1 of 2)
  11. Technologies and utopias
  12. Six lessons from Facebook’s privacy wars
  13. The decline of the two-party system
  14. Notes on the volcano
  15. Land, art, and signals from the edge
  16. The breakdown of politics, continued
  17. When politics breaks down
  18. A pointer to the future of payments
  19. Eco-pragmatism and resilience
  20. Blood in the boots
  21. Running the numbers on waste
  22. Villains and heroes in the fish wars
  23. ‘The Golden Age’ – depending on your lenses
  24. The iPad and the Chevrolet
  25. Taking a long view
  26. Tweeting the next wave
  27. Google, China, and ‘strategic ethics’
  28. The future of sport?
  29. The invention of celebrity

2009 58

  1. Future Savvy
  2. Changing the look of the blog
  3. The end of the cheap airline boom years
  4. Influencing the pasts
  5. Banksters # 2
  6. Climate change as Pascal’s wager
  7. Banksters # 1
  8. Complexity and risk
  9. The future flood
  10. The auction from the future
  11. The problem with carbon trading
  12. Challenging Britain’s energy assumptions
  13. Fudging the oil numbers
  14. Rupert versus the internet
  15. Down to the ground
  16. Banks ‘too big to save’?
  17. Greening the tax base
  18. Opening up the museum
  19. The strange death of party politics
  20. Imagining the 22nd century
  21. Roads less travelled
  22. The end of the Celtic Tiger
  23. Working on the moon
  24. How change happens
  25. Touching the limits
  26. The return of political economy
  27. The end of Moore’s ‘law’?
  28. Walking on the moon
  29. Energy from the desert
  30. Slow language
  31. The future of football
  32. How regions succeed
  33. General Motors and the 200-year company
  34. Not so many fish in the sea
  35. The noise of a past future
  36. After recorded music loses its value
  37. Banking, greed, and politicians
  38. Thirty years ago today
  39. The purpose of scenarios
  40. The trouble with economists
  41. The changing shape of surveillance
  42. ‘Thinking in systems’ – review
  43. The crisis and the world’s poorest
  44. The ‘2030 crisis’ and the return of Malthus
  45. The end of “shareholder value”?
  46. Copenhagen climate change blues
  47. Global mobile
  48. The social life of drugs
  49. Trouble ahead, trouble behind
  50. White bicycles and the politics of consumption
  51. The drugs problem
  52. Underclothes as fashion
  53. Trends for 2009 from the APF
  54. Nationalising the banks
  55. Learning from long-term futures
  56. Runways as white elephants (part 2)
  57. Runways as white elephants (part 1)
  58. Trapped in the moment of birth

2008 68

  1. An oil-spike recession
  2. ‘Survivors’ and catastrophe stories
  3. Checking the database state
  4. America’s 2025
  5. Thinking in Three Horizons
  6. Fireworks everywhere
  7. Obama and long-term trends
  8. The past and future of music
  9. The BBC, Brand and Ross
  10. Lessons for the city from ‘The Ghost Map’
  11. Fewer countries using the death penalty
  12. Some notes on the crash – and the rescue
  13. Theatre as journalism
  14. Simulating the end of humankind
  15. The US financial ‘rescue’ and the wolf of Gubbio
  16. Understanding the crash
  17. China’s political instability
  18. Doping, cycling and the Olympics
  19. ‘Slow Sunday’ and social prototyping
  20. ‘Participatory workshops’ by Robert Chambers
  21. More on suburbs and sustainability
  22. Energy prices and the decline of globalisation
  23. Refugees and climate change politics
  24. Museums of the future
  25. The failure of the political class
  26. The creative virus
  27. Bringing it all back home
  28. Sustainable suburbia
  29. Why plastic bags matter
  30. Competition between global cities
  31. Britain’s random drugs policy
  32. The impact of global organised crime
  33. Mobile money – from Africa to the UK?
  34. Important machines in history
  35. Scoring the impending global crisis: population
  36. Banks and chutzpah
  37. Making the Transition locally
  38. Arthur C Clarke and our ‘future in space’
  39. Alternative histories, alternative pasts
  40. How globalisation ends – or not
  41. Physical theatre goes mainstream
  42. Arthur Clarke’s Three Laws
  43. The erosion of liberties
  44. More evidence that noise kills
  45. How globalisation ends
  46. And now for ‘peak coal’
  47. Innovation lessons from James Watt
  48. Woody, hydro-power, and plastic
  49. The economic consequences of the (Iraq) war
  50. Living without outdoor advertising
  51. Energy and computer design
  52. The principles of sustainable economics
  53. Cheap energy and the shape of the internet
  54. Poles returning to Poland from Britain
  55. Honesty or transparency
  56. Liquid assets in Pratchett-land
  57. The rise of iWar
  58. Explaining England’s surveillance obsession
  59. What if… London is at its peak compared to UK
  60. 500-year trade cycles
  61. Five fantasies about the global economic system
  62. Britain’s car exports at 20-year high
  63. Homesick without leaving home
  64. Futures and other professional cultures
  65. The emerging auto market
  66. Sporting records, limits and technology
  67. The history of energy use
  68. China rising – politics follows economics

2007 189

  1. Nokia and the ‘eco-sensor’ phone
  2. Selling the highways dream – 50s style
  3. Trends versus futures
  4. Toy stories and global ethics
  5. Gandhi and the conditions which create violence
  6. Ice skating rinks and the ‘return of the repressed’
  7. Declining competitiveness of English football
  8. Why social networking goes from boom to bust (and back?)
  9. Britain’s carbon emissions – rising not falling
  10. Smoking and artistic integrity
  11. Saying no to bottled water
  12. Global remittances now three times larger than aid
  13. Capturing predictions
  14. Mobile payments market starts to move
  15. Commercialising childhood
  16. The limits of the UK population predictions
  17. Art as danger
  18. Thinking about long-term futures
  19. Burning up the book
  20. The future of management
  21. Machine readable design
  22. Steps towards sustainable business
  23. The etymology of ‘utopia’
  24. Everybody’s happy – Brave New World revisited
  25. The wisdom of the football crowd
  26. ‘Darkening’ the soft drinks market
  27. Apple and the ‘strategic moment’
  28. Competing futures of cars
  29. A brief history of information
  30. Trends in cards and cash
  31. ‘Healthy food’ trends in the US
  32. Competing on sustainability
  33. Scotland, Trident and the failure of politics
  34. The trouble with competition economists
  35. ‘Saving’ daylight
  36. Humans versus the biosphere
  37. DOTT 07 – sustainable design for communities
  38. Falling out of the future
  39. General Motors’ lessons from the Cluetrain
  40. Oil? It’s already peaked, say researchers
  41. My chapter in new scenarios book
  42. Ten top trends from the World Future Society
  43. UK – an immobile society
  44. Toxic consumption
  45. Gone into ecological debt for the year
  46. Inheritance tax, insecurity, and inequality
  47. Signs of deep shift in the economy
  48. UK government ‘blind’ to wave power
  49. DOTT’s top design/sustainability books
  50. Radiohead – really, it’s up to you
  51. Ageing into infinity
  52. nextwavenotes 26:09:07
  53. Visual pollution and the mental environment
  54. Containers and the growth of world trade
  55. Looking backwards at the future of the fax
  56. If the planet were a business
  57. Surveillance scepticism and the world of “pre-crime”
  58. nextwavenotes 18:09:07
  59. Fashion under fire from liberals and conservatives
  60. The dark side of the earth 2007
  61. nextwavenotes 13:09:07
  62. ‘One laptop per child’ – a disruptive technology
  63. Arctic ice ‘falling off a cliff’
  64. Women – promoted faster, paid less
  65. Visualising consumption
  66. The health costs of noise
  67. Robot wars, robot ethics
  68. Cracks in the China dolls
  69. Quick service note – search facility now added
  70. William Gibson – the novelty of ‘non-mediated’ experience
  71. The slow death of long-format music
  72. More articles in ‘selected articles’
  73. Foresight and scenarios in the voluntary sector
  74. Mid-life (crisis) markets and the guitar business
  75. Airlines, collusion, and carbon
  76. The future of the creative economy
  77. Global car production continues to rise
  78. Countering greenwash
  79. Bookends of American power?
  80. Cycling, doping, and the pace of change
  81. The 21st century flood
  82. The gender gap
  83. Globalisation and the power of the executive
  84. A telecoms story about competition and infrastructure
  85. The need for more resilience
  86. Ulrich Beck: globalisation meets its limits
  87. Making the present seem strange
  88. From products to services
  89. Getting to zero carbon in 20 years
  90. Cities as spectacle
  91. The scale of the required low carbon shift
  92. The futures of “convergence”, maybe
  93. Worldviews from the volksmusic
  94. Urban trees – chopped by insurance claims
  95. Health shows the limits of affluence
  96. Rupert, MySpace, and social class
  97. How England might get proportional representation
  98. How communities get to low carbon
  99. ‘Word free food’ – weak signal, but still interesting
  100. Changing shape of the ocean liner
  101. DNA sequencing could be ‘routine’ in 10 years
  102. The $100 lap top goes into trial phase
  103. Changing questions suggest different political landscapes
  104. Brave New World, 75 years on
  105. The rise of virtual currencies
  106. China overtakes US as biggest CO2 emitter
  107. Sudan and Iraq top latest list of failed states
  108. Shifting the battle-lines on climate change
  109. Young black people – significant victims of crime
  110. Connecting high house prices and long hours
  111. Motorists become more socially conscious
  112. HSBC – accelerating flexible working?
  113. Gosh! Unemployment figures understate numbers
  114. Pharma business model faces critical challenges
  115. Some official data on child trafficking into UK
  116. Visa Swap: puff, positioning, or business model test?
  117. Blindspot – our over-examined children?
  118. Facebook: putting the person back into the internet
  119. Misperceptions of green space inflect land debate
  120. Tesco and the gardening market
  121. UK continues to work longer hours
  122. More judicial challenges to CIA ‘rendition’ programme
  123. The increasing length of films
  124. UK’s mini-baby boom
  125. Housing report – built on arguable assumptions
  126. ‘Taking Liberties’ – sign of different film economics?
  127. William Faulkner on ‘the past’
  128. Childhood more depressing than it used to be
  129. Nokia: lessons on competing in emerging markets
  130. Energy White Paper’s underlying assumptions
  131. Climate change impact on UK biodiversity
  132. A couple more trends on the liberties issues
  133. Spotting data on “illegal” agency workers
  134. More on the acquittal of anti-war peace protestors
  135. Testing copyright law in the Magic Kingdom
  136. Human rights keeps checking security agenda
  137. Eating beef – starting on the road to disapproval?
  138. Shifts to flexible working – and its impact
  139. A sustainable football stadium
  140. Failling airline numbers
  141. Creativity and psychedelia
  142. Black swans, unknown unknowns, and wild cards
  143. The future of food distribution
  144. UK income inequality increases again after falling
  145. The changing shape of street vending
  146. Russia develops new types of state power
  147. Ted Heath’s prescient comment on liberties
  148. ‘Liberties’ issues seem to be gaining momentum
  149. Bees in rapid decline
  150. Heading south: Europe’s climate in 2071
  151. Up to one billion refugees from climate change?
  152. Designs that framed how we see technologies
  153. The future of technology: from blogs to lifelogs
  154. Car parks to close because of congestion charge
  155. The future that never happened
  156. Trees good for urban well-being – but threatened
  157. Blood and Gore on sustainability and business
  158. UAE starts on zero carbon zero waste city plan
  159. Birds change habits because of noise pollution
  160. The roots of high UK house prices
  161. DVD sales killed the rental shop
  162. Flat pack housing – a weak signal of some sort
  163. UK visitor trends indicate global shifts
  164. Virtual credit, real spend – Warcraft meets Visa
  165. Enabling the future
  166. Buffett on insight versus data
  167. Ethics challenge to Warren Buffett empire
  168. Politicians as public subjects
  169. UK personal insolvencies still climbing
  170. Open source reaches the mass market, at last
  171. The perils of large mergers
  172. Cycling continues to rise in London
  173. Greenpeace 2, Apple 1
  174. The future of recruitment and of work
  175. China’s green wall – to stem the desert
  176. The London stock boom may be peaking
  177. Shocking data on UK ethnicity and income difference
  178. Another take on defence and security ‘futures’
  179. Politicians at fault for low interest in politics?
  180. Working on waste
  181. The ecological limits to China’s growth
  182. When the rivers run dry – review
  183. The trendZ behind the BrandZ
  184. Long term decline in food expenditure ending?
  185. Freeview claims it’s overtaken Sky in UK
  186. The future of land
  187. 30-year futures from the MoD
  188. Past, present, future
  189. Environmental authoring