POWER OUT – the new BBC ‘power & protest’ thriller by New Weather’s Sarah Woods
POWER OUT is a new BBC thriller about power and protest on a dying planet, starring Vinnie Heaven and written
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Author: Andrew Simms
Plague poems – a creative response to the shock of Covid-19
In response to the shock of COVID-19, 3 friends wrote 33 poems in 3 months: the new volume, Plague Poems,
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Badvertising – stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency
‘Badvertising’ is a new campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency. This includes ads for cars, airline flights and fossil
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Reckoning with Britain’s imperial legacy: time to search for new heroes
We need an open public competition to update our national monuments, remove imperial injustice and celebrate a new generation of
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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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Is Australia becoming uninhabitable?
Australia is a canary in the coal mine of global heating, Bill McGuire, Prof of Geophysical & Climate Hazards and
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Economic prospects for 2020: New Weather and the FT survey
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms took
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