Long term decisions for a brighter future, or short term jockeying for advantage . Rishi sunak sets out his stall for the coming election. The northern leg of h52 is cancelled. The Prime Minister insists that every penny of the £36 billion intended for that rail link will be spent on other projects. There were a raft of other announcements too, sold like this. Politics doesnt work the way it should. Weve had 30 years of a political system which incentivises the easy decision, not the right one. 30 years of vested interests standing in the way of change. 30 years of rhetorical ambition, which achieves little more than a short term headline. Weve gathered politicians to weigh up whether the reformist pitch is credible for a party already in government. Could it even be an election winner . And speaking of 30 years ago. Things can only get better now ive found you. With so many Big Government schemes especially in education and health reliant on private finance deals, we reveal the soari
incredibly productive, innovative and changes the world. yeah. we have this tendency when we think what are the forces that are driving history to atune of those forces are is a desire for conquest and power or of a flew wednesday oaffluence or surviva. and political change, social change, it comes out of this other side of our humanity, which is the desire to be delighted or amused or to be in this kind of playful state and many think it starts as toys and games trigger these changes that you would never anticipate from the start. so some of this is even just things like wanting to have a cup of coffee? right. explain how that translates into something much bigger. so, coffee comes to the
manipulating an so when we talk about this sometimes for laypeople, we hear about the consequencing of the human genome and it can be done by a few thousand dollars by the purchase the size of a small refrigerator but it doesn t seemed to have changed our lives when you think about physics and that produced nuclear fission and nuclear bombs. when we look at the world of medicine, has it changed that much? absolutely. again, if you look at the history of physics, quantum physics and the decoding of that matter and atomic energy and atomic bomb, we re in the beginning of the revolution. we re now beginning to read individual human genomes and
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history of political insurrection coming out of these spaces. also with taverns. you cannot tell the story of the american revolution without the network on that political rebellion. the american revolution probably would have happened anyway but it would have required a different information network and a social gathering network had taverns and pubs not been invested. what about the game of chess? well, this is, you know, the whole history of chess has a metaphor for society. there was a book published, basically on the game of chess and the first one one of the first books ever published besides the bible in english and it was a huge best seller and it was kind of a book that we can t really imagine today. it was a game guide. like how to get better at chess but also a socio logical