‘Bad Actors’ Unfortunately, history is currently not much use because, to our knowledge we, (that is mankind) have never had such a powerful weapon that Information Technology (IT) has produced. The discovery of the transistor in the 1950s could be thought of as a starting point, but the progressive understanding of mathematics, physics and engineering […]
On being American. by, Malcolm Mackley. I am English and 79 years old. My own life has been an adventure, and I consider myself very fortunate to have been born as a ‘baby boomer’ in 1947, immediately after the 2nd World War. Until recently, America has been a distant presence on my mind, and for […]
UK reindustrialisation by Malcolm Mackley 22.07.2026 At the current age of 79, I am old enough as a teenager to have enjoyed the social revolution of the 1970s with the UK leading such things as the emancipation of women, pop music and also possessing world leading chemical companies such as ICI, world leading food companies […]
I sent a letter to my local paper, the Salcombe and Kingsbridge Gazette and they have now published a version (17.07.2026) some five weeks later. The message is important, particularly as I feel passionate about the need to get the UK out of a very serious financial position in order for the current population at […]
Parliamentary Committee on University Fees In June 2026, there was a parliamentary inquiry on University Fees and I sent the email below to all members of the committee. Within seconds I received an automatic response from each of them stating that unless I was living within their own Parliamentary constituency, I would not get a […]
UK Energy Madness By Malcolm Mackley Over the last twenty years, the USA has utilized fracking technology to enable them to become the world’s largest fossil fuel gas supplier, and this has helped the USA government to be globally bold in their current actions. During this same period successive UK governments have strived to make […]
This video is one of a series of talks organised by Ray Liang (West Virginia University, USA) in relation to the Cambridge Polymer Fluids Group that existed between 1980-2010 in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University. Go to the YouTube link below Ted Roberts Talk 14.02.2026
I was born in 1947, and it took 20 years before I became aware of or interested in UK political issues. Subsequently, various Prime Ministers have come and gone, and it is only now, (2026) at the age of 78, that I realise just how important countries’ prime ministers are. Below is a list of […]
Book Review. This is for Everyone. The invention of the World Wide Web. by Tim Berners-Lee (with Stephen Witt). Tim’s book is a seriously important account of how he achieved his passion of making the World Wide Web for everyone. The story is a powerful account of how computer scientists and experts in information […]
Dinner at the Val Moret Hotel in France. By Malcolm Mackley My wife and I were travelling between Calais and Trient in Switzerland and had decided to break our journey by staying overnight at the Val Moret hotel in the middle of France, near Troyes. We had stayed there before and knew that its […]