‘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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Global heating – a glimmer of light in the gloom?
More bad news was brought in January looking back over the previous year. Unsurprisingly, 2020 was either the hottest year
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100,000 dead
On the morning of Sunday 24 January, 97,329 lives had been taken by the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, according
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Economic prospects for 2021: New Weather and the FT survey
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of economic analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms
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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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