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How to save the Royal Mail
It’s a commonplace to say now that the government got it all wrong when it tried to demonise strikes and strikers – that the public mood was misread and in fact people across the UK know exactly why strikes are happening, and they agree with the reasons behind...
The Royal Mail – for public service or private profit?
Is it our fault? Are we asleep at the wheel, mildly surprised at the sell-off of much that was thought of as the infrastructure of the British state to passing billionaires or private equity company, anyone with a keen interest in dividends and an eventual sell-off...
Economic prospects in 2023: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey
Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for the UK. The New Weather Institute is part of that survey published today, and here are our responses collected together. They argue that...
FIFA has been dangerously misleading. This is why.
This post first appeared on the Badverts.org website... ,Ahead of the Men’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar kicking-off, athletes, sports bodies, lawyers and climate campaigners have come together to lodge a series of complaints, reported by the BBC, against FIFA’s false...
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 my Tickbox book - really just by writing about it a great deal, and by nominating companies that richly deserved it, like Hermes or British Gas. Now it looks like there...
Our challenge to the government: how will you reduce demand?
“At present, the government has no plans in place for ending sales of vehicles based on body type, including SUVs, or restricting the advertising of those vehicles. However, we are going further and faster to decarbonise transport.” Official response to our petition...
Contagious Tales of hope
Contagious Tales is a new collection of short stories that turns our troubled times into modern folk tales to shine a light on how we got here and illuminate the way ahead. It takes an imaginatively different look at our current crises, from the climate emergency to...
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 died, aged 86... It is hard to exaggerate the influence that Edgar Cahn had on me – right back to when I met him in December 1995, a quarter...
Economic prospects in 2022: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey
Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for the UK. The New Weather Institute is part of that survey published today, and here are our responses collected together. They argue that huge economic...