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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Is the climate worst case getting worse?
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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Reckoning with Britain’s imperial legacy: time to search for new heroes
We need an open public competition to update our national monuments, remove imperial injustice and celebrate a new generation of
Read moreHow to dodge the next wave of ghost towns
Bernie Ward is a friend mine, but she is also something of a heroine. For six thrilling years, she led
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Test and What? How official lack of confidence in the public sector worsened the crisis
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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How privatisation designed-in the PPE chaos
Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such
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Where do we begin the transition?
In a recent poll only nine percent of respondents said they wanted to return to the world as it was
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