Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
King's College London

Recent Articles by David Edgerton on Science Policy and Covid

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• The Guardian: Cummings has left behind a No 10 deluded that Britain could be the next Silicon Valley (18 November 2020)

• The New European: British Exceptionalism: Where Brexit and our Coronavirus response collide (3 May 2020)

• The New Statesman: Why the coronavirus crisis should not be compared to the Second World War (3 April 2020)

 

Comments and Quotes from David Edgerton on History and Covid

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• Fortune: The UK has one of the highest COVID-19 death tolls on earth. What happened? (2 August 2020)

• The Financial Times: The Everyone Economy: How to make capitalism work for all (2 July 2020)

• Al Jazeera: Could coronavirus reshape British manufacturing? (8 May 2020)

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​​Recent comments and quotes from David Edgerton on Science Policy

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• The Guardian: Britain,here's a plan: stop applying old fixes to new problems. And stop obsessing about growth (26 Jan,2023)

• The Guardian: The woes of startup Britishvolt should shock the UK out of its Brexit self-delusion (11 Nov,2022)

• The Economist: The case for more state spending on R&D (16 January 2021)

• Nature Podcast: 'Stick to the science': when science gets political (3 November 2020)

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Recent comments and quotes from David Edgerton on Technology and the 'Shock of the Old'

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• ​Expeditions: What is technology?

• The Tech: Social innovation - a corporate revolution or lip service? (13 May 2021)

• Politico: The low-tech path back to normalcy (3 March 2021)

• South China Morning Post: How China's rail nework highlights the power of the old to shock (4 September 2020)

• IEEE Spectrum: Inside the hidden world of legacy IT systems (28 August 2020)

• MIT Technology Review: Five books about technology and government (19 August 2020)

• The Economist: Repair is as important as innovation (18 October 2018)

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