Brexiteers dream, one imagines, of waking up on June 24th to a land free of alien interference and pesky laws made by Johnny Foreigner, where we can decide who is entitled to have human rights, eat all the bendy bananas we like, and raise a glass of English ale in a...
This week the New Weather Institute kicks off a series of short arguments for staying in Europe. Europe IN 250 Words is written by a variety of different people covering the subjects they care about and are fearful for, if we should vote Brexit. Our writers will be...
An open letter to Charles Horton, chief executive of Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), operators of Southern Railway... Dear Charles Horton We’ve never met, I’m afraid. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you quoted in the newspapers or interviewed on the radio. But I’m...
“The thing is, I don’t believe this stuff about staff shortages.” This is the kind of thing that, unfortunately, those on the South Coast have not been saying nearly enough to their train operator Southern Railways. But that is what I said, and it doesn’t sound like a...
The New Weather Institute works with the network, Economists for Rational Economic Policies (EREP), which explores the progressive case for the UK remaining in the European Union in its new publication, “Remain for Change: Building European solidarity for a democratic...
This week in sun drenched Hay on Wye we've been talking about rapid transition to a better way of doing things. And by that we mean a way of doing things, a future, that doesn't actually kill millions of us, impoverish other millions, further enslave Nature, and give...
Prof Richard Murphy of City University thinks out loud about the prospect of a rapid transition in economic thinking and practise, in conversation with New Weather Institute's Andrew Simms at the Hay Festival By Richard Murphy Andrew Simms and I had a lot of fun...
What can history teach us for the task of rapid transition in the face of climate change and corrosive inequality? Historian Molly Conisbee looks at how communities adapted during Britain's dramatic urban growth and upheaval in the 18th and 19th centuries. She reveals...
Creeping climatic upheaval and corrosive global inequality are like two threads pulling apart civilisation’s fabric. To survive and thrive we face an unprecedented challenge of rapid transition. But the way we live is locked-in by multiple factors. We are in the grip...
A decade or so ago, I was finishing my book about the relationship between Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci, and their race for America (you can buy it here as an ebook these days I’m glad to say). I became convinced that the real story there was the friendship between...