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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

In response to the shock of COVID-19, 3 friends wrote 33 poems in 3 months: the new volume, Plague Poems,

Buy it here: Knock Three Times – 28 modern folk tales for a troubled world edited by Andrew Simms and

New Weather’s Sarah Woods adapts Das Kapital for BBC Radio 4, broadcast on the bicentenary of Karl Marx’s birth… LISTEN

1st March 2018 Andrew Simms 0 Comments

Folk tales often grow from periods of great hardship. The tale of Hansel and Gretel, though first written down

‘Back with the fairies’, by David Boyle, charts the strange revival of beliefs in fairies, asks in an age of

The magician’s house, by Jan Dean, a chilly hearth-side story for the world we live in about a promise, begins

One special day – a cautionary Christmas tale by Bill McGuire is a short, seasonal special for our project on

“It takes a civilized man,” said George Bernard Shaw, “to be deeply moved by statistics.” The whole edifice of Fabian