IT'S ALRIGHT, girls. You can come out now. The scary lady with the teeth and glasses has gone. Patricia Hewitt's recent call for women to "breed for Britain" had us instinctively drawing our winceyette nighties a little bit tighter around our necks. We do indeed need to put the cot back into Scotland - but lying back and thinking of Ms Hewitt is not the answer. As a nation, we've woken up to our demon demographics rather late in the day. Time and again when I was interviewing Scotland's leading population geographers, they spoke of their frustration at being commissioned to research population decline in Hong Kong or Sweden or Singapore, while working in a country with the most alarming demographic profile in Europe that nobody was taking seriously.
It was March 1947, a time of great hardship for the population of Britain. The snowiest winter of the 20th Century was drawing to a close and would be followed by a colossal and devastating thaw. The country was mired in the aftermath of war, all essential items were rationed and I wonder how much enthusiasm Mum was able to muster when presented with me, a sixth child to join the swelling ranks of the Ayreses. Our house in Stanford in the Vale, then in Berkshire, now Oxfordshire, had two rooms downstairs and three up, no bathroom, no hot water and a lavatory comprising a wooden seat over a large galvanised bucket with a flared top. The back door faced north and opened on to the kitchen, which meant that in winter any heat generated was immediately dissipated when someone came into or we...
...She never stopped working and I am sorry to say I took her entirely for gran...Soon I was flying off to Singapore International Airport, on a two-year posting to th...
LIVERPOOL university wants to attract 25% of its students from abroad within four years. Currently about 15% of the university's 18,000 students are foreign.
... centre for chemistry, the university is working on projects like a biodegradable car battery, vita... a city in its own right with a working population of more then 1m people. In 1994, when China began building it in partnership with Singapore, most of the thousands of acres it now occupies we...
THE chairman of a Singapore football club has emerged as the lynchpin in a pound(s)12 million bid to take over Rangers. Bill Ng is a director at the little-known private equity firm Financial Frontiers, based in the Asian finance hub.
... administrators gain more experience by working at the club's Ibrox stadium. Mr Ng says he is agai...He added: "Our population size is quite similar to Scotland's so there's ple...
IT IS not hard to understand why General Frederick Napier Broome, the Governor of Western Australia, was unimpressed with the remote settlement named after him, and indeed why, in 1885, he asked if it might be called something else. But little did he know that the one-horse town of Broome, in Western Australia's northernmost region, the Kimberley - itself named after the first Earl of Kimberley, Britain's Secretary of State for the Colonies in the 1870s - would one day become the nation's pearling capital, and a haven for 21st Century tourists.
... divers, and by 1913 half of Broome's population was Japanese. The pearling industry in Broome woul...A working pearl farm until December last year, Kuri Bay has ..., meanwhile, has become easier now that Singapore Airlines, with its subsidiary Silk Air, has starte...
AMERICAN would-be Rangers saviour Bill Miller last night put his faith in manager Ally McCoist by insisting that the Ibrox great would be part of his rescue package. The 65-year-old revealed that he was the sole bidder remaining from the consortium put together by Chicaco-based Club 9 Sports. But, while expressing his intent to pursue a Company Voluntary Agreement with creditors, avoiding the dreaded newco option, he admitted that a 'creative solution' was being sought to tackle debts which could reach Pounds 134million. Miller told Sportsmail last night that the involvement of manager McCoist was crucial to his plans for the club. 'I will be speaking with Ally today and he clearly fits into my plans for the future of Rangers,' said the American. 'I believe my plans are the best for Ra...
...I am currently working with the administrators and lawyers to find a crea... large amounts of debt going forward.' Singapore-based rival bidder Bill Ng, meanwhile, last night ...'Our population size is quite similar to Scotland's, so there's pl...
LIVERPOOL University has set itself the ambitious target of attracting 25% of its students from abroad within four years. Currently, about 15% of the university's 18,000 students are foreign.
... of developing new materials and is working on projects like a biodegradable car battery, whic... a city in its own right with a working population of more then 1m people. In 1994, when China began building it in partnership with Singapore, most of the thousands of acres it now occupies we...
For those who care to look, Glasgow's Merchant City is packed with clues to the city's connections with the New World. The restored classical glory of St Andrews in the Square is furnished in Caribbean hardwoods, while the name of Jamaica Street proclaims the city's sugar trading past. The Tobacco Merchant's House and the Gallery of Modern Art, once a private house, hint at an elite lifestyle as extravagant in its day as any in New York, Singapore or Dubai. Glasgow is proud of this heritage, although even the title of the trendy quarter itself shows the selectivity of city boosters. This may have been a golden age for the tobacco lords and the sugar aristocracy, but it was little short of hellish for the slaves who worked and died for them on plantations across the Atlantic. You could c...
... just 10% of the total British population, yet represented at least 15% of all British absen... of the University of Strathclyde, he was working in his father's joinery business when he spotted a...
It was March 1947, a time of great hardship for the population of Britain. The snowiest winter of the 20th Century was drawing to a close and would be followed by a colossal and devastating thaw. The country was mired in the aftermath of war, all essential items were rationed and I wonder how much enthusiasm Mum was able to muster when presented with me, a sixth child to join the swelling ranks of the Ayreses. Our house in Stanford in the Vale, then in Berkshire, now Oxfordshire, had two rooms downstairs and three up, no bathroom, no hot water and a lavatory comprising a wooden seat over a large galvanised bucket with a flared top. The back door faced north and opened on to the kitchen, which meant that in winter any heat generated was immediately dissipated when someone came into or we...
...She never stopped working and I am sorry to say I took her entirely for gran...Soon I was flying off to Singapore International Airport, on a two-year posting to th...
IF YOU work for a young web company, you probably think your office is pretty cool. Maybe it has a pool table or even a roof terrace. Pah! Give it 37 years and, according to engineering company Arup, our office blocks will contain working farms, produce their own energy, be linked together by suspended green walkways and sections of each floor will be removable, upgradable and replaceable. This is the building of the future, imagined in a report released earlier this month by Arup's "Foresight + Innovation" arm. It is just one example of the elements that will make up our "smart cities" of the next age.
..."The global population is growing towards nine billion by 2050," says Ric..."In Singapore and California we've used technology that can make...
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