Click here: as the Games begin, the New Weather Institute discusses with the BBC the challenges facing Rio The Rio Olympic Games might seem one of the most troubled yet, but it’s easy to forget how dogged by controversy each Games is. Ever since Sydney in 2000, each...
What happens as large scale migration becomes inevitable due to a combination of environmental, economic and humanitarian reasons. Do we tackle the push factors and help the displaced, or worsen the conditions driving displacement, and rejecting responsibility for...
There’s been a bit of interest recently in the poor service and exploitative working conditions offered up by delivery companies. Yodel and Hermes are in the frame right now, courtesy of C4 Dispatches, The Times and The Guardian, which have put undercover reporters...
An open letter to Andrew Allner, chairman of the Go Ahead Group, ultimately responsible for the Southern Railways franchise. Dear Mr Allner I live in Sussex, the ancient kingdom of the South Saxons. I am hoping that this rings some bells in your mind. Because we...
Only a fortnight ago, and so much has happened since. I wrote an open letter to the chief executive of train operators Govia Thameslink Railway, Charles Horton, on this very website. It was read, along with another blog elsewhere, by over 100,000 people (picture above...
This has been a bit lost in the Brexit aftermath. But it is an important guide to the right-wing agenda which triumphed on 23rd June and has been gathering speed since 2010. The Land Registry, the public body which is effectively the state guarantor of land ownership...
This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
