Dear all, forgive me for being a bit remiss in updating this website – I have been concentrating my efforts on www.economicpolicycentre.com, www.future-es.com and www.ukcrimestats.com Anyway, there are some changes coming shortly to www.danlewis.org because looking at it now, I realise quite a lot of it is out of date and I’m missing a large number of articles that I have written in the recent and distant past. In the meantime, here is an interview I did at 3 in [...]
Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category
Categories: Economics, Energy, Environment, Security
To the news again ! Congratulations to the All Party Public Administration Select Committee led by Bernard Jenkin MP for producing a report. I haven’t seen it yet but the headlines that I have are basically correct – as I explained in the Yorkshire Post a few months ago, this was no bonfire. Speaking on LBC to Nick Ferrari this morning at around 8.10 a.m. I argued that quangos are right at the heart of the debate about the future [...]
Categories: Economics
Writing in the Yorkshire Post today, I described what was wrong with typical regional policy and how to do it much better. I suggested doing effective, boring and unpopular stuff like moving workers to the work (not the other way round) with more low cost roads and buses and paying lower wages and benefits in poorer areas to increase employment. This would do so much more than taking a bet on low-return but glamorous infrastructure projects like high speed rail [...]
Categories: Economics, Innovation
In the last 10 days, we’ve had a surprising amount of news about gas that requires some digestion. Starting with yesterday’s discovery of shale gas near Blackpool by Cuadrilla Resources – the best news that town has had in a long time. Then there’s the ongoing cold snap in the UK combined with a long acknowledge inadequate storage capability. As I wrote a year ago in Securing Our Energy Future Chapter 3: Don’t Bet on Gas – The UK Way, [...]
Ok, I need to update this site a bit more often. I’ve just written two posts. One for the Economic Policy Centre blog on the brewing China/USA dispute over trade and currency valuations and another for Future Energy Strategies blog on the great potential and thus far unanticipated outcomes of plug-in hybrids. Enjoy ! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
In the ideal world, everyone would share and practice our values of Liberal Democracy or at least feel unthreatened by them and in no way want to undermine our freedom. Unfortunately, only perhaps 1 billion people of this planet’s 6.8 billion live under liberal democracy, a billion more in India have elective government which is becoming more liberal and the remainder exist under various levels of autocracy. So that’s why we have a defence budget and why I’m more than [...]
Ok, here they are. I have to say, they look pretty generous to me. I’m going to do some back of the envelope calculations and come back with a new table that shows the yield per technology. As I wrote recently in Utility Week, if we really do get a boom in micro-generation from the 1st April when they come into force, this will not be without problems. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit [...]
