The Birmingham Brief - intelligent thought on policy issues.
- Description
- Many years ago a British politician, on learning that he was about to be appointed Minister for Transport, exclaimed: 'Some enemy hath done this!' It is not hard to see why he might have said this. The transport portfolio is often brimming over with some extremely difficult issues; and the HS2 (High Speed Rail 2) proposal is certainly no exception.
- Date:
- Thursday 31st January 2013
- Categories:
- Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- As gun barrels are cooling down around a blood–stained BP compound in Algeria, and as fighter jets still roam the skies of Northern Mali in search for Islamist militant targets, it is only legitimate to ask what Europe should contemplate doing next in the vast expanses (twice the size of Western Europe) of the Saharo–Sahelian region?
- Date:
- Thursday 24th January 2013
- Description
- The gang rape and subsequent death of a 23–year–old woman in New Delhi last month, and a second similar attack on a woman in Punjab this week, has focused the attention of the World's media.
- Date:
- Friday 18th January 2013
- Description
- EMR has been billed as a measure to decarbonise the electricity economy whilst at the same time stopping the electricity system collapsing as old coal and nuclear power stations come off line. Unfortunately the Government is selecting policy mechanisms that give a market advantage to the electricity majors.
- Date:
- Wednesday 9th January 2013
- Categories:
- Social Sciences