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Author: Lindsay Mackie

Blog Open Public Media 

“Let Them Eat Netflix”

28th February 202028th February 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments

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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Blog Open Public Media 

Make it worse! Costly and inefficient plans for the BBC

17th February 202011th March 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments BBC, media, Public Broadcasting

We now know the truth, courtesy of the Sunday Times revealing on 16th February that the Government, in the shape

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Vested interests are out to wreck the BBC
Blog Open Public Media 

The plan to break the BBC

31st January 20203rd February 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments BBC, media, Public Broadcasting, public interest

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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The BBC is essential to British life
Blog Open Public Media 

Why it’s time to protect the BBC

18th January 202031st January 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments BBC, Democracy, politics, Public Broadcasting

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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Blog The Absent Corporation 

Praising Parliamentary Watchdogs

25th May 201829th May 2018 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments

The giant services firm Carillion collapsed under the weight of its own greed, hubris and mismanagement in January this year.

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

The economics of gobbling

24th March 201824th March 2018 Lindsay Mackie 2 Comments GKN, Melrose, takeovers

Shouting ‘look over there’ while getting on with something nefarious over here is a tried and true tactic. So as

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Blog 

Good and bad productivity

28th November 2017 Lindsay Mackie 1 Comment financialisation, happiness, productivity

So much to worry about. And now the worry that preoccupies leader writers and politicians to the point of sleeplessness.

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

Milking it

3rd November 2017 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments

Systemic corporate failures are leaving our glass of milk half empty…  There’s a milk and butter shortage threatened, who would

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Blog 

The absent and violent corporation

13th October 201713th October 2017 Lindsay Mackie 1 Comment

Earlier this year my colleague David Boyle and I published a New Weather pamphlet called The Absent Corporation in which

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Blog 

Mega farms: the Next Great Crime?

18th July 2017 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments cows, dairy, ethical farming, eu, farming, mega farms, regulation, vegan, vegetarian

Today The Guardian reveals the onward march of the mega farms defined as warehouses – effectively accommodating more than 40,000

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