We can still bring high streets back to life…
By David Boyle, Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms “We created 400 clone towns nobody loves. We shouldn’t get upset –
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“A pandemic spreads” – what are we learning about failed neoliberal economics?
Andrew Simms and Sarah Woods reflect on the accidental relevance of their performance-lecture Neoliberalism: The Break-Up Tour for the launch
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Bye-bye Kier Group, and Serco, G4S etc…
Outsourcing and privatisation died at 15:18 on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Or thereabouts. That was of course a misquotation of
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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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Why faking a volcanic blast to tackle the climate emergency is a really bad idea
In my just published eco-thriller, Skyseed, the untimely eruption of an obscure volcano in Bolivia dooms an illicit programme to
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It is time to save the NHS from tickbox
The tickbox phenomenon, which I have been writing about for most of this year, seems finally to have reached its
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POWER OUT – the new BBC ‘power & protest’ thriller by New Weather’s Sarah Woods
POWER OUT is a new BBC thriller about power and protest on a dying planet, starring Vinnie Heaven and written
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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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Plague poems – a creative response to the shock of Covid-19
In response to the shock of COVID-19, 3 friends wrote 33 poems in 3 months: the new volume, Plague Poems,
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Munich, ‘good Germans’ and the dangers of othering your opponents
Rupprecht Gerngross is not a household name, even among historians of World War II, though he led what may have
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