September 2011
7 posts
Get switched on!
How can UK climate change policy expect to have any impact when booming cities in China are belching millions of tons of C02 everyday? Shouldn’t we focus on cleaning up electricity production in the emerging world before we build more windmills on British soil? But then again, wasn’t the “green new deal” all about creating jobs in a new sort of economy? Making Britain a leader in an...
Debate: Democracy is India’s Achilles Heel - Royal...
Pre-debate vote: For: 117 Against: 155 Uncertain: 175 The Royal Geographic hummed with curiosity on Tuesday evening for an issue hugely important in the democratic world, and yet buried underground. Suhel Seth, the Indian marketing guru, businessman, actor and columnist opened for the proposition with a re-telling of the Achilles myth. Just as the Greek hero’s dodgy tendo calcaneus was ...
Vicky Pryce: Megastar Economist
Who? Vicky Pryce, economist. Born Vasiliki Courmouzis. An Athenian by birth she took and kept the surname of her first husband, an academic she met while studying at LSE. Career A sparkling academic career at LSE led into an equally sparkling professional career at Williams & Glyn’s Bank, where in 10 years she rose to chief economist. She then spent three years at Exonn...
Cycling away, a review of the Cycling Festival
At The Royal Geographical Society last week, bike-lovers gathered to listen to a panel of writers, journalists and professional riders – all there to praise one thing: cycling. Rocco Forte, the hotelier and triathlon enthusiast, opened the festival and held forth as its chair. Topics discussed ranged from Bella Bathurst’s talk on how Victorian women were emancipated by the two-wheeled...
Brooks in the saddle for our Cycling Festival
We are proud to announce that Brooks, a byword in quality bicycle craftsmanship, will be sponsoring tonight’s Cycling Festival at the Royal Geographical Society. Chaired by Sir Rocco Forte, the festival will see “Flying Scotsman” Graeme Obree, essayist and author Geoff Dyer, authoress Bella Bathurst, award winning fiction writer Will Self...
10 Years on, the IQ2 audience vote against the war...
London’s Cadogan Hall reached full capacity last night as four senior political figures battled it out in a fierce debate over the motion, ‘The war on terror was the right response to 9/11’, chaired by the BBC’s Zeinab Badawi. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the former UK Permanent Representative at the UN in New York, opened for the opposition. He used the failures of the war 10 years on in order to...
The Quirkier Side of Cycling
We all know that a bike is very useful, both for the commute and for leisure, but there are some who have taken it to a whole new level… Cinema powered by cycling
Magnificent Revolutions have created a cycling generator than can power 600W of audio visual equipment for public film screenings. It uses up to 8 bicycles so you can have a gentle exercise with your friends while...