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POWER OUT – the new BBC ‘power & protest’ thriller by New Weather’s Sarah Woods

22nd August 202022nd August 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments BBC, energy, environment, power, protest, thriller

POWER OUT is a new BBC thriller about power and protest on a dying planet, starring Vinnie Heaven and written

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

How the AA was hollowed-out by Anglo American economics

21st August 202021st August 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments absent corporation, debt, 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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Blog Modern Folk Tales 

Plague poems – a creative response to the shock of Covid-19

8th August 20208th August 2020 Andrew Simms 1 Comment COVID-19, Pandemic, Poetry

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

23rd July 20203rd August 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments gerngross, munich, nazis, othering

Rupprecht Gerngross is not a household name, even among historians of World War II, though he led what may have

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Blog Rapid Transition Weather Bombs 

Is the climate worst case getting worse?

6th July 20206th July 2020 Bill McGuire 1 Comment

It’s not what most people want to hear at the moment, but the impact of Covid19 on society and economy

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Blog 

Reckoning with Britain’s imperial legacy: time to search for new heroes

10th June 202010th June 2020 Andrew Simms 1 Comment BlackLivesMatter, colonialism, history

We need an open public competition to update our national monuments, remove imperial injustice and celebrate a new generation of

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How to dodge the next wave of ghost towns

8th June 20208th June 2020 David Boyle 0 Comments COVID-19, ghost towns, time banks, town centres

Bernie Ward is a friend mine, but she is also something of a heroine. For six thrilling years, she led

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

Test and What? How official lack of confidence in the public sector worsened the crisis

5th June 202010th June 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments COVID-19, PPE, privatisation

In the sorry tale of the UK’s response to the corona virus there are many lessons. The current unfolding illumination

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

How privatisation designed-in the PPE chaos

25th May 202025th May 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments coronavirus, COVID-19, Economics, health, PPE, privatisation

Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such

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Blog Rapid Transition 

Where do we begin the transition?

18th May 202018th May 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments COVID-19, electoral reform, green new deal, localism

In a recent poll only nine percent of respondents said they wanted to return to the world as it was

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