Do not adjust your Newstatesman.com but there’s one bit of George Osborne’s speech to the Conservative party conference that’s worth praising: his commitment of £50m to research into the “wonder material” graphene. It was part of his package of science-funding announcements, including £145m for supercomputer research and £150m on extra mobile phone masts.
£50m for atomic-scale chicken wire
One welcome piece of news from George Osborne's speech.