by Andrew Simms | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog
This week is the 70th anniversary of the NHS. It was an extraordinary promise by a society to care for all its members, free at the point of use. It went rapidly from plan to reality in just three years and, decades later, as a mark of its success, the NHS still comes...
by Andrew Simms | Jun 15, 2018 | Blog, Rapid Transition
Everything we make includes an element of design. But design isn’t limited to household objects, clothes or buildings, it influences whole systems that shape the way we live. The climate crisis and corrosive inequality tell us that the systems we have need a...
by Andrew Simms | May 4, 2018 | Blog, Creative Thinking
New Weather’s Sarah Woods adapts Das Kapital for BBC Radio 4, broadcast on the bicentenary of Karl Marx’s birth… LISTEN HERE: Das Kapital, the drama, until 4th June on BBC Radio i-player Marx’s Das Kapital is one of the most influential books...
by Andrew Simms | Apr 29, 2018 | Blog, Weather Bombs
Ripping-up his bank account as he writes, Bill McGuire says that banks are still pouring money into ‘extreme fossil fuels’ in the face of common sense, and what they already know about global warming, wrecking the climate for everyone, themselves...
by Andrew Simms | Mar 24, 2018 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
Economics associations from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic stage the first international conference on the 33 Theses ‘Deconomisation’ – definition – noun: undoing the hold over society of a single, dominant economic approach...
