New publication: Can Design Catalyse the Great Transition?
Everything we make includes an element of design. But design isn’t limited to household objects, clothes or buildings, it influences
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Praising Parliamentary Watchdogs
The giant services firm Carillion collapsed under the weight of its own greed, hubris and mismanagement in January this year.
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‘Das Kapital’ in 60 mins: Sarah Woods’ new BBC Radio play
New Weather’s Sarah Woods adapts Das Kapital for BBC Radio 4, broadcast on the bicentenary of Karl Marx’s birth… LISTEN
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Running to stand still in the North Sea clean-up
One of the peculiar implications of our obsession with oil and fossil fuels is the strange way the UK has
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‘Deconomisation’: the growing conversation on economics reformation
Economics associations from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic stage the first international conference on the 33 Theses ‘Deconomisation‘
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The economics of gobbling
Shouting ‘look over there’ while getting on with something nefarious over here is a tried and true tactic. So as
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March tale: what would you do, in the cold, cold Winter?
Folk tales often grow from periods of great hardship. The tale of Hansel and Gretel, though first written down
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Crapitalism: & the alternatives to ‘big’ outsourcing
Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms ask why we’re not using proven alternatives to ‘big’ outsourcing News last week that Capita
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February’s tale: back with the fairies
‘Back with the fairies’, by David Boyle, charts the strange revival of beliefs in fairies, asks in an age of
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At last, a vindication from the National Audit Office
It is a strange thing, vouchsafed to few of us, to find ourselves vindicated by the National Audit Office of
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