Explore Challenges
- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
creativity, drought, pop ups, oceans, britain, 3G, Thames Estuary, Education, Britain, Robert Winston, populations, education, pensions, retirement, David Keith, Sir Gordon Conway, access, Singapore, OLPC, credit crunch
Introduction by Simon Jenkins
- Posted: 6th May, 2008
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Simon Jenkins introduces Sir Peter Hall and Martin Crookston at the Concreting the Countryside 21st Century Challenges event
Simon Jenkins is a journalist and author. He writes for the Guardian and the Sunday Times, as well as broadcasting for the BBC. He has edited the Times and the London Evening Standard. In July 2008 Simon was named new Chairman of the National Trust.
2 July 2008 - Simon Jenkins announced as new Chairman of the National Trust