Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy