by Andrew Simms | Jul 9, 2018 | Blog, Weather Bombs
A record-breaking heatwave hints at a lethal new climate normal, writes Prof Bill McGuire, but you wouldn’t know as the obsession with Brexit drowns out real news Nostalgia is gripping the political agenda and not in a good way, with Brexit harking back to an imagined...
by Andrew Simms | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog
This week is the 70th anniversary of the NHS. It was an extraordinary promise by a society to care for all its members, free at the point of use. It went rapidly from plan to reality in just three years and, decades later, as a mark of its success, the NHS still comes...
by Andrew Simms | Jun 15, 2018 | Blog, Rapid Transition
Everything we make includes an element of design. But design isn’t limited to household objects, clothes or buildings, it influences whole systems that shape the way we live. The climate crisis and corrosive inequality tell us that the systems we have need a...
by Andrew Simms | May 4, 2018 | Blog, Creative Thinking
New Weather’s Sarah Woods adapts Das Kapital for BBC Radio 4, broadcast on the bicentenary of Karl Marx’s birth… LISTEN HERE: Das Kapital, the drama, until 4th June on BBC Radio i-player Marx’s Das Kapital is one of the most influential books...
by Andrew Simms | Apr 29, 2018 | Blog, Weather Bombs
Ripping-up his bank account as he writes, Bill McGuire says that banks are still pouring money into ‘extreme fossil fuels’ in the face of common sense, and what they already know about global warming, wrecking the climate for everyone, themselves...
