Fitting letter from the editor
9 Feb 2024Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution are often summed up in the phrase...
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30 Years Ago: February 1994
1 Feb 2024It is tempting, from the viewpoint of 2024, to see the mid-1990s as a period...
Tall tales: Doorstep decisions
26 Jan 2024By Grahame Moody This has probably happened to you: A package is delivered to...
Learning by Training: Davos Week 2024
19 Jan 2024I don’t like to be a Cassandra, but analyse the information allowed by the...
Editor’s geopolitical letter
15 Jan 2024Geopolitics is back in the news – not that it ever really goes away. But for...
Not otherwise specified: Happy New Year?
9 Jan 2024Our first collection of miscellaneous news for 2024 starts, not...
30 Years Ago: January 1994
1 Jan 2024There are some constants in the ever-changing world of dangerous goods...
Learning by Training: Reactive or proactive?
22 Dec 2023In 2021 I launched the Tank Storage Sustainability Initiative (TSSI), only to...
NOS: Nature strikes back
15 Dec 2023Chassez le naturel and all that – this page has reported several times before...
Tall Tales of Hazmat: Dancing in the dark
8 Dec 2023The dictionary definition of ‘flammable’ means a substance is capable of...
Editor’s letter on canals
5 Dec 2023In March 2021, the containership Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal for six...
30 Years Ago: December 1993
30 Nov 2023Older readers may well remember the MariChem series of exhibitions, which had...
Learning by training: Communication, conversation
17 Nov 2023The ability to communicate, i.e. to exchange information and use it as energy...
Letter from the busy editor
10 Nov 2023September was a busy month for us here on HCB. As markets have settled down...
Not otherwise specified: Bugs be gone
3 Nov 2023It is that time of the year when things outside the home like to get inside...
30 Years Ago: November 1993
1 Nov 2023Thirty years ago, the world was changing. Coming out of a deep recession,...
Categorical letter from the editor
13 Oct 2023Every month when I sit down to plan the next issue of HCB, the first task is to...
Learning by Training: Disinformation
6 Oct 2023European Legislation on cyber-security and disinformation is terrifying. An...
30 Years Ago: October 1993
2 Oct 2023In those far-off pre-Covid days, the October number was always HCB’s bumper...
NOS: a nose for wine
22 Sep 2023Sad news for wine lovers in Washington state, US in August, when a semi-trailer...
Editor’s newly normal letter
4 Sep 2023“We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon,” sang the Bonzo Dog Band back in the...