Re-Green the Village
It’s time to put the secateurs, herbicide and peat compost away and let the over-manicured English village return to nature.
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Author: Lindsay Mackie
‘Super’ tax break for the company sucking life from high streets
The Chancellor’s recent ‘New Towns’ deal – £1bn for 45 towns (of which 40 just happen to be in Tory
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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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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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