by Lindsay Mackie | Mar 27, 2024 | Blog, Daily Climate Denial, Rapid Transition
Lindsay Mackie introduces New Weather’s new pamphlet, Unprepared, co-authored with David Boyle and Andrew Simms, which argues that an age of climate disasters and system vulnerability needs a dynamic, new, locally run approach to preparedness and response If there...
by Lindsay Mackie | Nov 15, 2023 | Blog
The glorious victory by 750,000 people, orchestrated by very skilful trades unions, to keep railway station ticket offices open, is important for a whole number of reasons – not just the obvious ones of convenience to passengers and the retention of accumulated...
by Lindsay Mackie | Jan 26, 2023 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
It’s a commonplace to say now that the government got it all wrong when it tried to demonise strikes and strikers – that the public mood was misread and in fact people across the UK know exactly why strikes are happening, and they agree with the reasons behind...
by Lindsay Mackie | Jan 10, 2023 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
Is it our fault? Are we asleep at the wheel, mildly surprised at the sell-off of much that was thought of as the infrastructure of the British state to passing billionaires or private equity company, anyone with a keen interest in dividends and an eventual sell-off...
by Lindsay Mackie | Apr 3, 2021 | Blog, Rapid Transition
It’s time to put the secateurs, herbicide and peat compost away and let the over-manicured English village return to nature. Thirty years ago we bought a rather rat infested – alright, very rat infested – cottage, and have enjoyed it ever since. It’s where...
