Why people long for stories

“It takes a civilized man,” said George Bernard Shaw, “to be deeply moved by statistics.” The whole edifice of Fabian

Milking it

Systemic corporate failures are leaving our glass of milk half empty… There’s a milk and butter shortage threatened, who would

Knock Twice: is a new collection of 25 modern folk tales for troubling times by a group of leading scientists, economists,

Nations may opt-out of the EU, and regions out of nations, but is corporate power inescapable? Lindsay Mackie reports on a

See the SmogDay website for the real human stories behind the statistics on pollution. In December 2015, pollution causing

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FOLLOW: @EverydayDenial You know things are bad when it takes Donald Trump pulling the US out of the Paris agreement

A new study by the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex University and the New Weather Institute points to historical evidence

Why are large companies trying to distance themselves so much from their customers? Listen, starting at 20 minutes 28 seconds: the

This story is an extract from our new collection of 23 modern folk tales for troubling times There was a knock

“Stories are one of the most ancient and most effective ways of making sense of the world,” wrote Philip Pullman