by Andrew Simms | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog
What can history teach us for the task of rapid transition in the face of climate change and corrosive inequality? Historian Molly Conisbee looks at how communities adapted during Britain’s dramatic urban growth and upheaval in the 18th and 19th centuries. She...
by Andrew Simms | May 27, 2016 | Blog
Creeping climatic upheaval and corrosive global inequality are like two threads pulling apart civilisation’s fabric. To survive and thrive we face an unprecedented challenge of rapid transition. But the way we live is locked-in by multiple factors. We are in the grip...
by Andrew Simms | May 18, 2016 | Blog
In 1972 the law was passed that allowed the UK to join what was then called the European Economic Community (EEC). Despite Europe’s current crises, it’s unchanging, fundamental challenge was expressed that year by Sicco Mansholt, then president of the European...
by Andrew Simms | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog
Dear Jane Ellison MP, When I travel from your constituency where I live to visit family members outside London, I pass through Liverpool Street station. Perched near the steps that bring you up from the Underground is a statue so modest that most commuters pass it...
by Andrew Simms | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
Nuclear plans pass high costs, economic and other risks to future generations, it’s time for new design criteria for the energy system. Cancelling the troubled plan for the French state-owned energy company EDF to build the proposed new Hinkley Point C nuclear...
