The test and trace crisis reveals why capitalism isn’t working
Lindsay Mackie, Andrew Simms and David Boyle argue that the UK test and trace debacle shows why capitalism – critics
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Author: Lindsay Mackie
How the AA was hollowed-out by Anglo American economics
The world of staycation is bound to lead to those sad scenes by motorways and country roads of the broken
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Test and What? How official lack of confidence in the public sector worsened the crisis
In the sorry tale of the UK’s response to the corona virus there are many lessons. The current unfolding illumination
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How privatisation designed-in the PPE chaos
Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such
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Where do we begin the transition?
In a recent poll only nine percent of respondents said they wanted to return to the world as it was
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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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“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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Why it’s time to protect the BBC
New Weather’s Lindsay Mackie says the BBC is vital to our national well-being and Britain’s cultural life, and its time
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