by David Boyle | Jul 17, 2022 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
I have tried to launch some kind of award system over the 18 months or so since the publication of my Tickbox book – really just by writing about it a great deal, and by nominating companies that richly deserved it, like Hermes or British Gas. Now it looks like...
by David Boyle | Jan 30, 2022 | Blog
I’m afraid that the co-author of our last pamphlet (The Other Pandemic), the inspirational civil rights leader Edgar Cahn, has died, aged 86… It is hard to exaggerate the influence that Edgar Cahn had on me – right back to when I met him in December 1995,...
by David Boyle | Oct 28, 2021 | Badvertising, Blog
So that was the budget then – and, bizarrely, on the eve of a hugely important climate conference, UK chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced billions in road spending, cuts to taxes on polluting domestic flights and has cancelled long-delayed fuel duty...
by David Boyle | Oct 2, 2021 | Badvertising, Blog
The advertising industry has enjoyed a lack of scrutiny for its role in the climate crisis, but its time end the promotion of polluting fossil fuel companies and high-carbon lifestyles by adverts, and see such advertising now as a form of ‘Brain Pollution’. A newly...
by David Boyle | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
By David Boyle, Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms “We created 400 clone towns nobody loves. We shouldn’t get upset – job losses aside – about changing them.” So said Mark Robinson, co-founder of landlords Ellandi and chair of the government’s High Streets...
