Isabel Hilton
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Remembering Zhu Rongji (opens the original)
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There is a temptation when a public figure dies to indulge in collective nostalgia. But celebrating past achievements can also highlight present disappointments. Nostalgia was much in evidence in China as citizens remembered Zhu Rongji, the former Chinese premier who died aged 97 in August after a life of exemplary public service. As citizens recalled the 1990s, when Zhu’s economic reforms changed many lives for the better, there was also an unmistakable sense of regret for the loss of optimism
On the world stage, Xi projects confidence (opens the original)
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China’s president, Xi Jinping, likes to assert that the world is undergoing “changes unseen in one hundred years”. He borrowed the phrase from a Chinese political scientist named Yuan Peng, who first articulated it when Chinese analysts began to see serious flaws in the western economic model after the 2008 financial crisis, though Yang may himself have borrowed it from the late Henry Kissinger. In a later book, Yuan reflected on the decay of an era that began with the Peace of Westphalia in 164
Elon Musk, space solar and eternal power (opens the original)
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Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple Podcasts Have scientists found the secret to eternal power? Engineers, inventors and sci-fi writers have long dreamed of harvesting the constant power of the sun. Now, plans to build solar panels in space are tantalisingly close to fruition. This week, Ellen is joined by Prospect contributing editor Isabel Hilton to explains why it could just work. From rocket launches to robots assembling solar farms in space, Isabel explains the vision and its main obstacles
The festival leaving Edinburgh (opens the original)
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This Tuesday, the Edinburgh TV Festival (ETF) celebrated its 50th birthday. Although not the first event in the world to celebrate television—the Prix Italia predates it by nearly 30 years—it is nonetheless the first of its kind in the UK and, to this day, offers a unique space for TV professionals to debate the state of their industry. Still ongoing until Friday, the festival this year has by all accounts been the typical jamboree: attended by hundreds of senior executives, wannabe producers, d
Have scientists found the secret to eternal power? (opens the original)
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In an office on the first floor of an unassuming building in Harwell, Oxfordshire, on a campus that is quietly becoming one of Europe’s busiest hubs of space innovation, Martin Soltau is proposing something that sounds like science fiction. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Soltau today believes he holds the key to the United Kingdom’s clean energy future: a cheap technology that would create thousands of skilled jobs and put the country at the forefront of a new era of abundant, clean power. He
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