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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
