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Projects that are in progress, right now.

Wild gardens
Blog Rapid Transition 

Re-Green the Village

3rd April 20215th April 2021 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments climate emergency, Easter, gardening, peat

It’s time to put the secateurs, herbicide and peat compost away and let the over-manicured English village return to nature.

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Death of the High Street
Blog The Absent Corporation 

‘Super’ tax break for the company sucking life from high streets

10th March 202110th March 2021 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments corporations, HighStreet, retail, tax

The Chancellor’s recent ‘New Towns’ deal – £1bn for 45 towns (of which 40 just happen to be in Tory

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Winter urban woodland
Blog Modern Folk Tales 

100,000 dead

24th January 202124th January 2021 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Lockdown, Pandemic, Poetry

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
Blog The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects for 2021: New Weather and the FT survey

7th January 20217th January 2021 Andrew Simms 2 Comments 2021, Economics, green new deal, Pandemic

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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Blog The Economics Reformation 

We can still bring high streets back to life…

17th December 202020th December 2020 David Boyle 1 Comment clone towns, high streets, local economics

By David Boyle, Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms “We created 400 clone towns nobody loves. We shouldn’t get upset –

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Andrew Simms and Sarah Woods in discussion for Digital Theathre
Blog The Economics Reformation 

“A pandemic spreads” – what are we learning about failed neoliberal economics?

16th December 202017th December 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Economics, Neoliberalism, Pandemic

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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Blog The Absent Corporation 

The test and trace crisis reveals why capitalism isn’t working

3rd October 20203rd October 2020 Lindsay Mackie 1 Comment COVID-19, Economic policy, privatisation

Lindsay Mackie, Andrew Simms and David Boyle argue that the UK test and trace debacle shows why capitalism – critics

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Blog Daily Climate Denial Modern Folk Tales 

Why faking a volcanic blast to tackle the climate emergency is a really bad idea

29th September 202029th September 2020 Bill McGuire 0 Comments

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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Blog Modern Folk Tales Rapid Transition 

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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