All articles in Perspectives

Are the Olympics … evil? 13 September 2016

Are the Olympics … evil?
Heard the one about the man who delivered a piano to the Himalayas? 19 August 2016

Heard the one about the man who delivered a piano to the Himalayas?
Despair, bankers and glimmers of hope in submarine art gallery off the Canaries 1 August 2016

Despair, bankers and glimmers of hope in submarine art gallery off the Canaries
Why Mexicans may welcome the Great Wall of Trump after all 20 July 2016

Why Mexicans may welcome the Great Wall of Trump after all
How UK’s top 3 mega projects may be Brexit “collateral damage” 1 July 2016

How UK’s top 3 mega projects may be Brexit “collateral damage”
Mozambique’s debt crisis: at a glance 18 May 2016

Mozambique’s debt crisis: at a glance
Property in the digital age: have we any idea what’s coming? 15 March 2016

Property in the digital age: have we any idea what’s coming?
Will China still fund Sierra Leone’s fancy new international airport? 25 January 2016

Will China still fund Sierra Leone’s fancy new international airport?
China’s new Asia infrastructure bank opens for business, but what will it do? 6 January 2016

China’s new Asia infrastructure bank opens for business, but what will it do?
The century’s most troublesome construction projects 5 October 2015

The century’s most troublesome construction projects
Is Baha Mar developer, Sarkis Izmirlian, "mad"? 11 August 2015

Is Baha Mar developer, Sarkis Izmirlian, "mad"?
Has Obama’s ‘Power Africa’ initiative shorted out? 24 July 2015

Has Obama’s ‘Power Africa’ initiative shorted out?
Subversive charity: the man who pioneered the $30 house 31 March 2015

Subversive charity: the man who pioneered the $30 house
Very cool: ‘Freezeway’ in Canada’s Edmonton would let people skate to work 25 February 2015

Very cool: ‘Freezeway’ in Canada’s Edmonton would let people skate to work
What’s really going on with the Nicaragua Canal? 5 January 2015

What’s really going on with the Nicaragua Canal?
How Russia’s economic pain will send World Cup costs spiralling 22 December 2014

How Russia’s economic pain will send World Cup costs spiralling
Is the notion of the “ultra project” really dead? 19 November 2014

Is the notion of the “ultra project” really dead?
What would the UK do with $169bn from China? 5 November 2014

What would the UK do with $169bn from China?
Major carbon cuts possible if US and China just learned from each other 22 October 2014

Major carbon cuts possible if US and China just learned from each other
UK construction industry searches its soul over “lost generation” 6 October 2014

UK construction industry searches its soul over “lost generation”
How England’s weak and disconnected North could rise 25 September 2014

How England’s weak and disconnected North could rise
The war of Mexico’s wind farms 20 September 2014

The war of Mexico’s wind farms
Want to punish Putin? Keep the 2018 World Cup right where it is 6 August 2014

Want to punish Putin? Keep the 2018 World Cup right where it is
India’s grand plan to turn its deserts into solar farms 16 July 2014

India’s grand plan to turn its deserts into solar farms
Why Russia’s South Stream gas pipeline is not about selling gas 26 June 2014

Why Russia’s South Stream gas pipeline is not about selling gas
The fascinating engineering problems posed by... latrines 28 May 2014

The fascinating engineering problems posed by... latrines
Why we need tougher building codes 7 May 2014

Why we need tougher building codes
30 April 2014

Fate of South Africa’s president could hang on home improvements
22 April 2014

There is something fishy about seasteading
25 March 2014

The art of estimating in frontier markets