Time for a genuinely civil, civil contingencies response
Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for
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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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“Let Them Eat Netflix”
Every UK administration gets angry with the BBC, but this time it’s different. New Weather examines what’s really behind the
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Make it worse! Costly and inefficient plans for the BBC
We now know the truth, courtesy of the Sunday Times revealing on 16th February that the Government, in the shape
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The plan to break the BBC
In the second post about the threat to public media in Britain, New Weather’s Lindsay Mackie unpicks the lines of
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The great debate: checklists versus tickbox
I have just in the last few days published a book on the much-derided tickbox culture (it is called Tickbox).
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Why it’s time to protect the BBC
New Weather’s Lindsay Mackie says the BBC is vital to our national well-being and Britain’s cultural life, and its time
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Is Australia becoming uninhabitable?
Australia is a canary in the coal mine of global heating, Bill McGuire, Prof of Geophysical & Climate Hazards and
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Economic prospects for 2020: New Weather and the FT survey
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms took
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New Weather co-director Prof Bill McGuire resigns from scientific body over fossil fuel funding – full letter
As reported in this BBC News article, New Weather Institute co-director, Prof Bill McGuire has resigned from the Geological Society
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