Reckoning with Britain’s imperial legacy: time to search for new heroes
We need an open public competition to update our national monuments, remove imperial injustice and celebrate a new generation of
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How 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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Test and What? How official lack of confidence in the public sector worsened the crisis
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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How privatisation designed-in the PPE chaos
Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such
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Where do we begin the transition?
In a recent poll only nine percent of respondents said they wanted to return to the world as it was
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A Government in charge but in denial of its role
The Government and Professor Chris Whitty, its Chief Medical Officer, have, to be fair, always told us that this and
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The floods still to come
Prof Bill McGuire writes that the pandemic is like a ‘waterless flood’ that is bracing us for what new studies
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National Gardening Leave: an opportunity to reinvent working lives and urban spaces
How often are ideas that once seemed radical and to some, even preposterous, made tame by the turn of events?
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Why and how rationing works – lessons from rapid civic mobilisation
Nothing like the current upheavals around the world in the wake of the novel coronavirus, COVID19, have been experienced in
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