The great debate: checklists versus tickbox
I have just in the last few days published a book on the much-derided tickbox culture (it is called Tickbox).
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Why it’s time to protect the BBC
New Weather’s Lindsay Mackie says the BBC is vital to our national well-being and Britain’s cultural life, and its time
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Is Australia becoming uninhabitable?
Australia is a canary in the coal mine of global heating, Bill McGuire, Prof of Geophysical & Climate Hazards and
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Economic prospects for 2020: New Weather and the FT survey
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms took
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New Weather co-director Prof Bill McGuire resigns from scientific body over fossil fuel funding – full letter
As reported in this BBC News article, New Weather Institute co-director, Prof Bill McGuire has resigned from the Geological Society
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Knock Three Times – see our new collection of modern folk tales
Knock Three Times – 28 modern folk tales for a troubled world, edited by Andrew Simms and Bill McGuire for
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Five fails in UK climate emergency action
As the UK is revealed to be the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the G7 group of
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Rising seas and Extinction Rebellion: policing the wrong problem
Bill McGuire, Prof. of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, says that policing Extinction Rebellion looks like displacement by state authorities unwilling to
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Climate Breakdown? We need to talk about the Treasury
Extinction Rebellion held a People’s Assembly in Parliament to identify new priorities for each government department, this is an adapted
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Why Caroline Lucas should be the interim PM
By David Boyle and Andrew Simms When car-crash politics proves such irresistible and distracting theatre, it is even more important
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