‘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
Read moreThe Chancellor’s recent ‘New Towns’ deal – £1bn for 45 towns (of which 40 just happen to be in Tory
Read moreMore bad news was brought in January looking back over the previous year. Unsurprisingly, 2020 was either the hottest year
Read moreOn the morning of Sunday 24 January, 97,329 lives had been taken by the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, according
Read moreEach year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of economic analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms
Read moreBy David Boyle, Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms “We created 400 clone towns nobody loves. We shouldn’t get upset –
Read moreAndrew Simms and Sarah Woods reflect on the accidental relevance of their performance-lecture Neoliberalism: The Break-Up Tour for the launch
Read moreOutsourcing and privatisation died at 15:18 on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Or thereabouts. That was of course a misquotation of
Read moreLindsay Mackie, Andrew Simms and David Boyle argue that the UK test and trace debacle shows why capitalism – critics
Read moreIn my just published eco-thriller, Skyseed, the untimely eruption of an obscure volcano in Bolivia dooms an illicit programme to
Read moreThe tickbox phenomenon, which I have been writing about for most of this year, seems finally to have reached its
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