A Government in charge but in denial of its role
The Government and Professor Chris Whitty, its Chief Medical Officer, have, to be fair, always told us that this and
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The floods still to come
Prof Bill McGuire writes that the pandemic is like a ‘waterless flood’ that is bracing us for what new studies
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National Gardening Leave: an opportunity to reinvent working lives and urban spaces
How often are ideas that once seemed radical and to some, even preposterous, made tame by the turn of events?
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Why and how rationing works – lessons from rapid civic mobilisation
Nothing like the current upheavals around the world in the wake of the novel coronavirus, COVID19, have been experienced in
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Time for a genuinely civil, civil contingencies response
Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for
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The BBC’s Wartime Hero
Noel Newsome took over the BBC European Service on the day that the Nazis invaded Poland, on 1 September 1939.
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“Let Them Eat Netflix”
Every UK administration gets angry with the BBC, but this time it’s different. New Weather examines what’s really behind the
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Make it worse! Costly and inefficient plans for the BBC
We now know the truth, courtesy of the Sunday Times revealing on 16th February that the Government, in the shape
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The plan to break the BBC
In the second post about the threat to public media in Britain, New Weather’s Lindsay Mackie unpicks the lines of
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