The resistable rise of the Absent Corporation
I have tried to launch some kind of award system over the 18 months or so since the publication of
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Author: David Boyle
The man who invented a new kind of money – for health and justice
I’m afraid that the co-author of our last pamphlet (The Other Pandemic), the inspirational civil rights leader Edgar Cahn, has
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How to increase the chances of success at COP26
So that was the budget then – and, bizarrely, on the eve of a hugely important climate conference, UK chancellor Rishi
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It is time we stopped the ‘brain pollution’ of high-carbon advertising
The advertising industry has enjoyed a lack of scrutiny for its role in the climate crisis, but its time end
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We can still bring high streets back to life…
By David Boyle, Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms “We created 400 clone towns nobody loves. We shouldn’t get upset –
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Bye-bye Kier Group, and Serco, G4S etc…
Outsourcing and privatisation died at 15:18 on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Or thereabouts. That was of course a misquotation of
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It is time to save the NHS from tickbox
The tickbox phenomenon, which I have been writing about for most of this year, seems finally to have reached its
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Munich, ‘good Germans’ and the dangers of othering your opponents
Rupprecht Gerngross is not a household name, even among historians of World War II, though he led what may have
Read moreHow to dodge the next wave of ghost towns
Bernie Ward is a friend mine, but she is also something of a heroine. For six thrilling years, she led
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The BBC’s Wartime Hero
Noel Newsome took over the BBC European Service on the day that the Nazis invaded Poland, on 1 September 1939.
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