“It takes a civilized man,” said George Bernard Shaw, “to be deeply moved by statistics.” The whole edifice of Fabian statistics, outcomes, learnings, KPIs and so on were built on those foundations. Shaw was not wrong. You do need an imagination to imagine the picture...
Systemic corporate failures are leaving our glass of milk half empty... There's a milk and butter shortage threatened, who would have thought it? And it's accompanied by the usual, willfully ignorant media jokes about the French croissant becoming a rarity. Morrisons...
Knock Twice: is a new collection of 25 modern folk tales for troubling times by a group of leading scientists, economists, environmentalists and policy experts and activists. Realising the limits of facts and policy alone to change the world, an innovative group of...
Nations may opt-out of the EU, and regions out of nations, but is corporate power inescapable? Lindsay Mackie reports on a vital, missing debate Is corporate power a danger to democracies? This was the key, under-considered question that the New Weather Institute...
The first media question raised in response to new economic growth figures is typically about resulting interest rates, but our real interests should lie in considering the impact on our planetary life support systems. The BBC spoke to the New Weather Institute about...
In a world distracted by political tremors Bill McGuire warns we are waking real, angry giants Too many people think that climate change is all about the atmosphere - if they think about it at all – where the carbon pollution arising from human excesses is...
Earlier this year my colleague David Boyle and I published a New Weather pamphlet called The Absent Corporation in which we explained our (then) daring theory that the modern giant global corporation now treats its customers with contempt and neglect as a matter of...
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 over the years to 150 of the most impoverished estates. One of the issues that came up at the launch was the question of...
Prof Bill McGuire wonders whether Miami’s financial district will soon give a whole new, literal meaning to going ‘off shore’, ending up 60 km out to sea Rarely, if ever now, does a month go by without more evidence coming to light of the increasingly dire straits we...
Did the banking crisis ever end, or continue in other forms? New Weather teamed up with Prime Economics on the anniversary of the crisis to ask the big questions Click & listen: Finance Shrugged - will the banking crisis happen again? Ten years ago the former...