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there are some changes coming shortly to www.danlewis.org because looking at it now, I realise quite a lot of it is out of date and I’m missing a large number of articles that I have written in the recent and distant past.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 ‘Security’ Category
Categories: Economics, Energy, Environment, Security
At last – after many months of difficult development, the Economic Policy Centre , the think tank which I am proud to be Chief Executive of, is launching today a new ground-breaking platform – www.ukcrimestats.com UKCrimeStats is the UK’s only crime ranking platform for neighbourhoods, Police Forces and Streets with maps, analysis and reports – starting with this one here – Decoding the Crime Data Dec 10 to Feb 11. I don’t know why crime isn’t researched by economists more [...]
Categories: Innovation, Security
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, [...]
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 [...]
