<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Michael G Healy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael G Healy]]></description><link>https://www.michaelghealy.com/essays</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:40:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.michaelghealy.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Governments Don’t Spend Money.]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Michael G. Healy One of the quietest stories in this weekend’s Sunday Times may turn out to be one of the most important. Buried inside the business pages was a report that George Osborne’s much-criticised Help to Buy scheme has generated an unexpected financial return for the Treasury. According to figures published by Homes England, the Government has already made a capital gain of around £1.24 billion on equity loans that have been repaid, in addition to earning roughly £500 million in...]]></description><link>https://www.michaelghealy.com/post/the-best-governments-don-t-spend-money</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a78ffa3421979b2d9782ea1</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:31:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/88040f_ac545e8ed7814f36a77a284e854af9b6~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_971,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mike Healy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain Doesn’t Need More Engineers.]]></title><description><![CDATA[For most of my working life, I have heard the same prescription for Britain’s economic revival. We need more engineers. We need better vocational education. We need stronger manufacturing. We need closer cooperation between government and industry. We need long-term investment rather than short-term thinking. Roland Carter, Chief Executive of Smiths Industries, made precisely that case in The Times, in a thoughtful and persuasive argument. I agree with almost every sentence he wrote, yet I...]]></description><link>https://www.michaelghealy.com/post/britain-doesn-t-need-more-engineers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a78feb7421979b2d9782cc2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:27:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/88040f_831e4c4864ba419396ec69e2b3fedb6d~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_971,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mike Healy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Age of the Narrative, Part One:]]></title><description><![CDATA[How the discovery of the unconscious helped transform persuasion—and began a journey from psychoanalysis to advertising, public relations and modern political campaigning. One of the central assumptions of the Enlightenment was that human beings were, broadly speaking, rational creatures. Give men and women access to information. Allow them to debate competing ideas. Free them from censorship and superstition. Educate them. Permit them to exchange goods and ideas freely. And, imperfectly but...]]></description><link>https://www.michaelghealy.com/post/the-age-of-the-narrative-part-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a78fdbe7e238b0b8ae4629a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:24:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/88040f_9720c19db4f84b868e65bae414902800~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_971,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mike Healy</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Who Taught the World to Think in Bits]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Every book. Every photograph. Every symphony. Every scientific discovery. Every conversation. Every human memory that can be digitised owes something to a quiet mathematician whose name most people have never heard.” History has a curious habit of celebrating those who stand on the stage while forgetting those who built it. Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone. Bill Gates put a computer on every desk. Jensen Huang is supplying the engines that power artificial intelligence. Sam Altman has become...]]></description><link>https://www.michaelghealy.com/post/the-man-who-taught-the-world-to-think-in-bits</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a78fd3b421979b2d9782958</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:21:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/88040f_18fb96840eb4477b87208a272dcb42b4~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_971,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mike Healy</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>