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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 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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Blog 

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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Blog Rapid Transition 

Time for a genuinely civil, civil contingencies response

10th March 202010th March 2020 Andrew Simms 2 Comments civil contingency, COVID-19, disaster response, emergency, localism

Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for

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