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Author: David Boyle

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Is a different kind of trade deal possible?

24th May 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments free trade, hayek, trade, Trump

It is one of the great ironies of history that, east and west, the liberation of the agricultural slaves and

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Blog Daily Climate Denial 

Running to stand still in the North Sea clean-up

29th April 201830th April 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments decommisioning, fossil fuels, oil

One of the peculiar implications of our obsession with oil and fossil fuels is the strange way the UK has

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It isn’t public versus private, it is big versus small

24th January 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments carillion, economies of scale

Let me start with a story, which has to be a little obscure to protect the innocent. The government has

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

At last, a vindication from the National Audit Office

10th January 201811th January 2018 David Boyle 0 Comments cancelled, Govia, grayling

It is a strange thing, vouchsafed to few of us, to find ourselves vindicated by the National Audit Office of

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Blog Clearing the Air 

#SmogDay: remembering air pollution’s victims & clearing the air

5th December 201711th December 2017 David Boyle 0 Comments Smogday

Action: please call on MPs to sign Caroline Lucas’ #SmogDay early day motion for urgent action to clean the air

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Blog Modern Folk Tales 

Why people long for stories

10th November 201711th November 2017 David Boyle 0 Comments

“It takes a civilized man,” said George Bernard Shaw, “to be deeply moved by statistics.” The whole edifice of Fabian

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The great debate between talking and doing

25th September 201725th September 2017 David Boyle 1 Comment

I helped launch my new pamphlet The_Grammar_of_Change, commissioned from New Weather by the Local Trust, the agency which is distributing £1m each

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The post-crash culture we now live in

15th August 201715th August 2017 David Boyle 0 Comments

There is a truism about fish, who are said not to wonder overmuch about the nature of the water they

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Empathy is not a finite resource

24th July 201731st July 2017 David Boyle 0 Comments climate, empathy

I have been reading Robert Hutchison’s excellent pamphlet on rapid transition – though it does not use that phrase –

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Missing election issues #2. The rise of the giants

3rd June 2017 David Boyle 1 Comment giantism

This is the first of a series of contributions which New Weather is setting out before the last week of

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