Visitors to poor countries often comment on the lack of waste they see. People with very few possessions have little choice but to recycle their own limited resources. Affluent western nations think they can afford to be throwaway societies, casual with their wealth. Here is a theory to strike...

It is no secret that when the fortunes of the telecoms sector collapsed in 2000, network supplier Ericsson was hit hard. In October 2003, the Sweden‐based firm had spent 11 quarters in the red and chief executive Carl‐Henric Svanberg admitted “I think it’s very low odds on guessing that...

My local soccer team has spent its entire existence to date struggling in the lower reaches of English football. But a couple of years ago, the club raised more than a few eyebrows by pulling off what most people regarded as a transfer coup. Now the player in question was no world‐beater but...

If outgoing Intel CEO Craig Barrett has his way, we’ll all soon be surviving on a diet of nothing but chips. But before nutritionists everywhere shudder at the thought of an even greater obesity problem, let me reassure them that the chips in question are not the fried potato kind. While...