Archive for October, 2009

Rethinking Roads

The problem is that one of the things we are asked to do is to question policy orthodoxy…


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  • 30/10/09 at 4.44pm
  • By John

Glasgow to Bangalore: Quality Travels says Top Entrepreneur

UK India Business Council Summit hears how innovation and high standards are allowing a British company to help develop the life sciences sector in India


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  • 30/10/09 at 12.21pm
  • By Andrew

Beauty is truth

It’s been a weekend of big talks for me, as I opted out of what little mischief you can get up to in Cambridge of a Saturday night…


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  • 29/10/09 at 4.19pm
  • By Alex

Land of the Mountain and the hotel Flood

Party conferences seem to be memorable as often for the things that happened away from the conference hall as in it. And, for some reason, the stories usually revolve around hotels.


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  • 19/10/09 at 2.44pm
  • By John

Dispatches from Inverness

Interesting fringe event today up here in sunny Inverness, which saw a particularly provocative topic raised; namely, is the SNP becoming comfortable or even complacent?


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  • 17/10/09 at 6.28pm
  • By Keith

Britain’s fastest-growing CRO, ClinTec International, expands MENA operation with launch of new Cairo office

ClinTec International, one of Britain’s leading global clinical research organisations (CROs), has launched its Cairo office. The new operation will not only provide ClinTec International’s global biopharmaceutical associates with access to new patient populations, but it also further consolidates the privately-owned British company’s reputation as a major presence in the Middle East and North Africa …


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  • 16/10/09 at 2.04pm
  • By Andrew

Scotland’s £1.3 billion Pharma Sector Healthy – but with fewer people

Despite the recession, pharma-related businesses in Scotland are ploughing over a billion pounds into Scotland’s economy and safeguarding over 11,000 jobs.


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  • 16/10/09 at 12.00pm
  • By John

Expenses issue reignited

Hmmm, MPs as victims – it just doesn’t sound right does it? The public have become so full of antipathy towards our representatives that much respect has drained away, taking with it any chance of public sympathy.


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  • 15/10/09 at 11.56am
  • By Keith

‘Not inhaling’ simply won’t cut it…

Monday morning and for the younger members of my university a chance to reflect upon a hectic and undoubtedly fun-filled Freshers’ week…


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  • 13/10/09 at 4.07pm
  • By Alex

Green shoots emerging among credit crunch cracks?

Last October, while walking my daughter up The Mound and on to school, we passed cold-numbed journalists and camera crews all clutching cups of franchise-chain coffee to ward off the October chill.

They, the representatives of both the British and international media, were huddled outside the old Bank of Scotland HQ, ready to report whether or …


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  • 12/10/09 at 3.19pm
  • By Andrew